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Andersen called for tougher enforcement and fines. "The people who sell liquor want to make money, but they know not to sell minors because if they get caught they have an even stiffer penalty" than cigarette vendors, she said...
...captain Tim Carver, senior Rich Beukema and freshman Brian Younger, not only was the competition tougher and more grueling than what they had faced in previous events, but there was also something missing--the rest of the team...
...midst of this furor, the Penn faculty executive committee has called for tougher rules against faculty-student romances; it wants to amend the policy that calls such relationships "unethical" so that it would prohibit professors from dating students under their supervision. For her part, Topol doubts this will do any good. "I can't imagine how any student would come forward after seeing what Penn has done to me," she says. "Penn's response has done nothing but make the wounds deeper and more painful...
...spoke, prominent Republican opponents of the measure were growing derisive. "If this were a trial, I'd call as my first witnesses the Founding Fathers, who directly and unanimously rejected term limits," Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) told the floor. Democrats, meanwhile, introduced an even tougher version -- knowing the GOP would not back it -- that would have applied 12-year limits retroactively. (It failed, 135-297). "This essentially takes this issue away from the Republicans," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The GOP knows it's about 60 votes short on this, and what they really want...
...plan to retire. In a speech on the Senate floor, the 73-year-old former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, who has suffered from a series of medical problems, said "the time to pass the torch to another generation is near." Heflin's decision makes it tougher for Democrats to strengthen their 54-46 Senate minority in the 1996 elections (Alabama is now largely Republican). At least three Democrats -- Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, and David Pryor of Arkansas -- may join the retirement list...