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...considered to be the highlight of the winter season--were sophomores Darin Shearer, who won the 1,000-meter run in 2:23.92; Shayne Mauricette, who won the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.34; and senior Dave Anderson, who won the 35-pound hammer throw with a toss of 18.86 meters...
...American box-office grosses -- speak for themselves. Six Star Trek movies: $450 million. Three Naked Gun farces from the short- lived '80s series Police Squad: $200 million. Two episodes of Wayne's World spun out of an SNL skit: $170 million. Two of The Addams Family features: $160 million. Toss in a few movie series based on TV shows based on comic books -- two Batman ($410 million), four Superman ($400 million) and three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies ($250 million) -- and you have a portfolio that could make any film studio healthy now and for years to come. "The genre...
Diversity is a term bandied about our campus with the reckless abandon that literary scholars toss around "intertextuality" or "gender" as a verb. We chair committees, establish organizations and plan events with the expressed purpose of bringing about greater "diversity" in the student population or the faculty. Diversity in this sense translates into a greater percentage of minority, female or homosexual members in the Harvard community at large...
...Democratic Senate seats now up for election, compared with 13 in the G.O.P., the Democrats' 56-to-44 majority is in grave danger. With the sudden loss of proven vote getters such as Mitchell and Boren, the Democratic sure-bet states of Maine and Oklahoma are thrown into the toss-up column. As a result, political strategists can envision an outcome that could leave Democrats with nominal but not effective control of the Senate...
...discrimination is decidedly, undoubtedly wrong. The military's policy only lingers because of lingering prejudice, which fosters ridiculous stereotypes and false assumptions. Were ROTC to discriminate against another group--against Black students, for instance, or against women--there would be no debate. The Faculty would toss ROTC out, without considering technicalities...