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As soon as Greenspan finished this sentence, the American media's breaking news sensor sparked an automatic chain reaction, ultimately filling every major newspaper's headline with the words "Greenspan endorses Bush's tax-cut plans." Far from it. Greenspan further qualified his carefully worded statement by pointing out the...
Certainly Bush is for the enforcement of immigration laws to prevent illegal immigration, but so was former Vice-President Al Gore '69 and former President Clinton. The automatic assumption that Republicans must be anti-immigration is dangerous and false.
DIED. WILLIAM HEWLETT, 87, philanthropist, engineering whiz; in Palo Alto, Calif. Hewlett and fellow Stanford University student David Packard started their company in 1938 in a rented garage with $538. The firm's initial inventions: an automatic urinal flusher and a harmonica tuner. Its first success was selling sound-testing...
Particularly disturbing is that the NCAA has not yet confirmed whether any automatic bids will be given out for the national tournament. The four teams that go to Minnesota may well be selected entirely at-large.
This column is not meant to herald Harvard's arrival as the new kings of the ECAC. The Crimson is still a good recruiting class away from that, and its youth and inconsistency will probably conspire to keep it from claiming the top spot this year. But first place is...