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...years ago, some students worked with visiting artists to build a set of picnic tables that were cut around Cabot's trees, some that fit snugly into the terraced corners of Whitman Hall and others that were free-standing. These tables are places to linger over a meal outside and listen to Hannah's sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball...
...Hard-to-Get. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, a tax-cutting Governor of a battleground state, called Dole weeks ago and said she didn't want to be considered for the No. 2 spot. That's usually a sign that someone wants the job badly. But since then, Whitman, 49, hasn't merely closed the door, she has locked it. Whitman made herself unacceptable when she announced last month that she opposed not only the party's strict antiabortion platform plank but also a ban on partial-birth abortions. That pro-choice stance has made her anathema to party...
...Governors Weld, Whitman and Pataki, displaying either political principle or electoral pragmatism, have vowed to modify the platform to include pro-choice politicians like them. Weld is now pressuring the party to appoint new, pro-choice delegates to represent Massachusetts at the Republican convention this summer. He hopes to garner support for a more open, tolerant platform...
...exactly sparkled during the campaign, will be the host on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Says Forbes: "I wanted to see if I could do a better impersonation of me than they were doing." No sketches are yet in place, but rumor has it New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, a childhood friend who opted for Dole, may want to tune out. CHER AND CHER-ALIKE...
Aggressive unilateralism, while tempting, will only destroy the current liberal system of trade. Mr. Whitman should reconsider before suggesting that the crude protectionism and anti-free trade tirades of Pat Buchanan "do point in the right direction." They do not. --Chuanfei Chin...