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...Ebbers has traveled a circuitous route to become the telecom industry's Southern-fried Paul Bunyan. After graduating from high school in Edmonton, Alta., Ebbers started out as a milkman but soon found that "delivering milk day to day in 30-below-zero weather isn't a real interesting thing to do with the rest of your life." A warmer clime beckoned in the form of Mississippi College, a Southern Baptist school in Clinton, Miss., where the Canadian won, of all things, a basketball scholarship and mostly rode the bench before graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree...
...Cellucci has] proposed banning drinking on college campuses to crack down on minors drinking," according to Connolly. The governor advocates zero-tolerance with regard to underage drinking offenses, Connolly added...
...Bison ran only three plays between the tackles on Saturday, netting zero yards, in the second half before the team's final possession when it solely sought to run out the clock. Meanwhile, Bucknell racked up 116 yards rushing at the corner of the Harvard defense, and 88 yards passing, averaging 6.7 yards-per-pass play...
...professional career, and how much Alan means to his friends and family. Since Alan's likely tissue type match will likely be Asian, the drive pushed to register Asian donors. Promotional posters singled out the Asian community, and volunteers distributing flyers around campus waded their way through crowds to zero in on Asians (or at least those who appeared to be Asian). Unfortunately, the drive was only an effort to save the life of one particular individual-but the drive could have been so much more...
...that chapter, Gould retraces the history of malfunctioning Christian calendars back to a monk named Dionysius Exigus who began the A.D. calendar at the year 1 rather than the year zero. From there sprang the simmering academic debate over whether the new millennium begins on Jan. 1, 2000, or one year later. Based on extensive research of fin de siecle newspapers and magazines, Gould observes that pop culture has generally favored the 1999 New Year's Day as the dawning of the new century. The other view "has always been over-whelmingly favored by scholars and by people in power...