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...Toscanini's, tattooed espresso aficionado Max Milgram believes the strategy's working; he and his fellow ice cream-scoopers remain enthusiastic because, he says, "We have an owner who is hip to everything and lets us choose. But we can't play anything too extreme---except late-night." If it was up to his tie-dyed coworker, Tessabelle Walker, "The only thing that would be playing is bootleg Phish and the Dead." Other Toscanini's staples include Portishead and Radiohead---and the microsundae...
Boys will be boys - except in a growing number of courts, where they are men. A nationwide trend towards trying juveniles as adults was taken to its furthest frontier in recent days when a Michigan court heard the case of Nathaniel Abraham, accused of first-degree murder. Two years ago, the then-11-year-old Abraham borrowed a .22 caliber rifle, sat on a hillside in a Detroit suburb, and shot stranger Ronnie Greene, Jr. in the head. Abraham's lawyers claimed the shooting was accidental; they said he was taking potshots at some trees. The prosecution said he bragged...
Besides Darling-Hammond's appointment, Rudenstine has filled the deanships of all Harvard's schools except the Law School and appointed three provosts. Every one of these appointments has been a white male...
WALTER PAYTON was a warrior in the truest, fullest sense of the word. As football players go, he was not big--except for his heart. Walter used every proficiency and skill he possessed, on every down, to produce the spinning, rhythmic, graceful symmetry that made Payton Payton. On the field, he was "the complete package." He had an uncanny ability to perform when it was crucial. He was the only "pure" back, who caught passes, blocked and brought to bear whatever skills were necessary to achieve the goal...
...decidedly liberal economics pitted him against moderate White House policy. "Reich's biggest frustration was that he felt that by focusing so single-mindedly on reducing the deficit, the Clinton administration missed a golden opportunity to invest in workers," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "And no one, except maybe [former treasury secretary Robert] Rubin exemplified that dedication to deficit reduction more than Gore did." In fact, adds Tumulty, Reich and the vice president have never been philosophically close. "They parted ways...