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...familiar face returns to lead the Crimson. Senior Jack Wylie served as co-captain of the team last season and junior Joel Radtke will join him this year as the other co-captain...
While some 2,000 hearts are transplanted each year, last week's operation was apparently unique. "I'm not aware of any cases in which a heart was transplanted from one family member to another," says Joel Newman, spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing in Richmond, Virginia, which maintains a nationwide registry of 35,000 requests for organ donations, about 3,000 of them for hearts. "While the odds of this occurring are extremely slim, this puts a human face on a real problem for thousands of people awaiting organs. You can save lives by donating...
...down to -- why not? -- Roy Cohn, the aide-de-camp of Senator Joe McCarthy and arguably Satan's first lieutenant. The meaning of hip was reconfigured to embrace the greed and swank and snobbery it used to reject. It would be summed up later in a song by Billy Joel, who may or may not be hip but was hip to this: "All you need are looks and a whole lotta money...
...Director Joel Schumacher has made the most successful movie yet of a John Grisham novel. Its acting is the best, its paranoia and its plotting are fairly plausible and, despite its obligations to thriller conventions, it says something pretty truthful about what it's like to be young and neglected these days. Finally, in Brad Renfro the filmmakers have a real find -- a tough, appealing kid whose instinct is not to beg for sympathy but to let it accrue to him naturally...
...Year holiday in South Carolina, Clinton asked Ludwig, who was sitting next to the President in a seminar, "if he could provide any advice on the Whitewater matter, advice on the legal and regulatory issues" involved in the collapse of Madison. Ludwig consulted Hanson and deputy White House counsel Joel Klein. They thought it "would not be appropriate," and Ludwig told the President so when next they met. So what? Maybe nothing -- but the incident does not exactly disprove critics who are worried that the White House tried to exert improper influence on government regulatory agencies to soft-pedal Whitewater...