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...George T. Hill '00, who is also a Crimson editor, says he has had a volunteer zeal since high school, but does not disconnect himself from political life...
...Lake County Adult Detention Complex is moonlighting as a bed-and-breakfast, offering citizens a one-time-only opportunity to experience punishment without crime. Price: $55 for adults, $30 for children. So just who came up with this screwy idea? Sheriff Aaron Kennard, who says with a missionary's zeal that the public needs to "see what my people are going through." His people are the 665 officers and civilians who will staff the $135 million facility when it opens to real criminals this week. But some of the sheriff's visitors have another goal. They want their kids...
...Supreme Court has, in the past 10 years, attempted to reverse the centralizing trend of earlier courts and shift power away from the federal government to the states, often claiming that such a scheme better satisfies the "original intent" of the framers. Recently, in its zeal to protect states' "sovereign immunity," the Court's five-member majority has begun to overstep the bounds of original intent, ruling in two cases that the 11th Amendment, which protects states from federal lawsuits "by Citizens of another State," also protects them from suits by their own citizens over violations of federal labor...
...literature is true of all the arts now: there are readers of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, there are Michael Crichton's readers, and the twain don't meet. Except, possibly, theoretically in cyberspace. F. Scott Fitzgerald had it right: "Culture follows money." And the money--perhaps even the creative zeal--is now in the new media. A radically reshaped culture is beginning to be created there. We can already begin to see what the generation born with a TV remote in its hand, hip-hop on the CD player and a computer screen in its face will do to traditional...
...Rocker offered something of an apology, which opened with the statement "My emotions fuel my competitive zeal. I have gone way too far in my competitive zeal." Huh? Short of a full-scale apology for his remarks about foreigners, it's hard to imagine Rocker sharing any sort of rapport next year with the man who'll be calling his pitches - Puerto Rico native Javy Lopez...