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...half-dozen community service organizations already exist in the College, but Jason Q. Purnell '99 wants to add another...
...ready. But the resemblance, if not deceiving, is striking. The voice, but for being perhaps a semiquaver deeper, is the very one that has moved millions. Yet evidence abounds of the Franklin Graham difference. In his office in Boone, North Carolina, are artifacts not associated with his father: the half-dozen military rifles mounted on the wall. A little way down the road stands his beloved Harley-Davidson Wide Glide. Hangared at a nearby airstrip is the six-seat twin-turboprop Mitsubishi plane in which he logged 450 hours last year as a pilot. "If there's a machine...
...University was certainly prepared for the event. Police were stationed outside University Hall and at other Key points around campus, and several gates to the Yard were locked before and during the rally. A half-dozen Cambridge police officers on motorcycles and bikes tried to prevent protesters from blocking the street in front of William James Hall...
What this contraction of services will mean for consumers produces a yin-yang split in perception. Optimists predict that the half-dozen or so remaining big players, with their enlarged networks, will have the clout to force doctors and hospitals to hold down medical costs, which will stabilize premiums for individual and corporate customers. "We're the only mature industrial society on the face of the earth that doesn't like big," says Compton. "Which would you rather have? [A few] real efficient giants competing with one another, or 30 or 40 companies that don't have that scale...
...seemingly the point of these regressive new police dramas. All three series are vastly more violent than any other cop shows currently on network television, where the trend has been to keep the killing and maiming offscreen. In one episode of Swift Justice, we see more than a half-dozen people get shot to death, blown up and, in one scene, deliberately hit by golf balls. Sad but true. Justice was created by Dick Wolf, the producer responsible for the far more sophisticated Law & Order. "There are guys out there, 18-to-34-year-olds, who want car chases, gunfire...