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Starting in September, students at U. Penn. will be able to exchange a Dining Services meal for one with their professors...
...here on the windswept prairie of Minnesota, where we have only three seasons--either winter is just over or winter is on the way, or else it's winter--and where by March we feel dull and flat and lost in the boondocks, it is pretty luxurious that the U. of M. basketball team won the 1997 Big Ten championship and went to the NCAA tournament. It's the best news all winter...
Republicans in Congress, wary of the President's proposal as a budget buster, have raised questions about administering the Hope Scholarships. Will parents append college transcripts to their tax returns? Submit drug tests? Is a B from State U. on a par with a Harvard B? And what about grades K through 12? G.O.P. majority leader Dick Armey said last week, "I want to make sure that the President's program doesn't subsidize two years of remedial learning for what should have been learned in the first 12 years." But such remarks from the party that recently wanted...
...motivating force for the red-alert was a phone call from a "credible" man who believed that he saw potentially explosive nitrate in the U-Haul of two men who were also buying diesel fuel, a necessary second ingredient for any high-quality bomb. Once the F.B.I. issued the terrorist advisory, hundreds of people from across the country called in leads to help with the search. (What a pity that the men were only loading their truck with the gas necessary to run their equipment and not conspiring world domination...
...second, more disturbing issue is a pervasive sense of fear that has overtaken our everyday lives. In the wake of national tragedies and terrorist scares, it no longer seems unreasonable to see terrorists lurking inside every U-Haul truck. The most lasting legacy of the Oklahoma bombing and last summer's TWA explosion over the New York skyline is a deep feeling of vulnerability and a heightened desire for caution. In this environment, every suspicious person is a threat and every credible threat must be dealt with seriously...