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...Harvard football team may have proven its superiority this weekend, but the Chess Club turned the Wolff Cup over to Yale this weekend after an extremely close match...
...presented the Bundesverdienst-kreuz, or Cross of the Order of Merit, to Abigail Collins, an associate director of the de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES); and to Christoph Wolff, Mason Professor of Music...
...needs to meet Wall Street's targets, its news divisions get the same flurry of pink slips and parachutes as everybody else. Especially when they're losing money. "In the face of the advertising slowdown, so many media outlets are cutting costs with layoffs and lower page counts," says Wolff, "that in a real way, we can't afford news this summer." Between the temporary vacations, the permanent ones and the cost-cutting, the resources with which news is produced were scarcer this August than ever before...
...Acts of God, or exceptional news, are big in August because they have little competition from official news," says Wolff. "What's more, I've always thought that such news gets even bigger because one's colleagues who are working take particular delight in making colleagues who are not working come back from their vacations...
...doubtful Wolff will have to end his own vacation early. The Condit saga may not have the legs - not enough celebrity to be a Diana or a JFK, and not enough official status (namely, the presidency) to justify the high-toned hand-wringing that elevated impeachment. Of course, with its sinister twist - the still missing Levy - the Condit saga could still mutate into the ultimate in O.J.-Clinton unholy spawn. But that would take a corpse or a confession, and it's unlikely Rep. Gary Condit has arranged a three-day press blitz to offer either one of those...