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This is only the third time in history that two women have squared off in a general election for the U.S. Senate. But that subject barely surfaces in the daily yin and yang of the campaign. The more interesting story is that while Murray and Smith are both somewhat offbeat, they are polar opposites politically. And at a time in which President Clinton has broken the needle on the country's moral compass, we're about to find out whether one of the nation's largest groups of independent-minded voters goes for the moderate suburban mom who speaks softly...
...this, he has been well served; he has some of the most competent economic advisers. The Malaysian team has decided to improve the country's dire economic situation. It has drawn the battle lines, and it is doing something. Let's have less name calling and more substance. PAUL YIN Kuala Lumpur...
Budget trims--a la Great Cuts--obviously carry inherent risks. Jessica Y. Yin '01 asked her budget stylist to trim the ends straight and cut some bangs--a seemingly simple request. Instead, she was left with hair layered on the ends and bangs that gently sloped upward and then back down again like an arc across her face. "[My roommate] Sarah volunteered to fix it," Yin grumbles. "She abruptly cut the left side. The right side still slopes." Yin, though, took the whole incident in stride. Remember: don't worry, it'll grow...
Indeed, some of the more traumatizing hair-cuts are of the do-it-yourself-genre, and provide strong evidence that however much you love your roommates, never, ever let them cut your hair. Recently, Yin's roommate Sarah E. Kennedy '01 put her hair in her roommates' hands, trusting novice cutters with her coiffure, and met with near-tragic results. What began as a routine hair-cut soon went disastrously awry with the creation of a 3-inch long "ridge" near the nape of her neck. Her already-short hair now had a conspicuously short layer in back. What caused...
...Yin then took evasive action. "I tried to remedy the Ridge," she claims, "but it was too deep." As Yin gives her explanation, she reaches into her desk drawer and brandishes a large pair of scissors--though not the same instrument of evil that created the Ridge. "Sarah," she says nonchalantly, "you have a weird long hair." Kennedy feels for the rogue strand, and then Yin reaches over to cut it. The cycle continues...