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...avoid last minute TF shuffling, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby proposed last fall a system of preregistration, under which students would turn in their study cards one semester in advance...
...American as the football it interrupts. At the very least, the FCC would have Dartboard think such a display more acceptable than saying one of George Carlin’s seven dirty words on television. But Dartboard knows better and will be sure to avoid the Super Bowl once he has kids, so as to protect them from the soft-core porn that now pervades primetime sports, courtesy of MTV. After learning that Jackson had revealed a breast, Dartboard saw no reason for surprise: with the tomfoolery that was allowed to go on on that dance floor, the networks were...
...million of them legal temporary workers. No more would these people—many of whom have held low-paying menial jobs for years—contribute to America’s service economy without reaping its benefits. Those who work in the United States should never have to avoid hospitals or jobs with reasonable safety controls for fear of being deported...
...order to avoid making it a tourist attraction or a shrine, we believe the best course of action is to eliminate it." ROBERT CARGIE, spokesman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Iraq, after the unit asked for permission to destroy the hole in which its soldiers found Saddam Hussein...
...errors of the government he heads. The BBC's bosses had to quit last week because they led it into battle based on information from subordinates that turned out to be wrong. Blair thought their resignations were appropriate. The Tories might call it "flipping unbelievable" if he manages to avoid being judged by the same standard over his march to war in Iraq...