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...match, en route to an 8-6 victory over sophomores Kunj Majmudar and Elliot Weiss. Having clinched the second doubles match, the Cardinal grabbed a 1-0 lead in team score. The No. 3 match, between Stanford's Geoff Abrams and Grant Elliott and sophomore Mike Passarella and junior Philip Tseng, was stopped...
...Americans know that nothing good can last. Every boom goes bust. Every heart gets broken. We have been conditioned to look for the lead lining in every cloud. "There's something about the mandarin class of America--they have a hard time taking yes for an answer," says Philip Burgess, president of the Center for the New West, a Denver think tank. "But after 15 years of hand-wringing about America's competitive decline, the national media [are] coming to their senses...
...American church's annulment system, at least among conservatives, has been of its generosity. U.S. Catholics in 1994 received 54,463 annulments, 75% of all those granted worldwide and more than 90% of all they requested. Some people wink and call it "Catholic divorce." Others, like former Pilot editor Philip Lawler, are grim: "To speak in economic terms," he says, "the inflation of annulment has debased the currency of marriage...
Tobacco execs no doubt expected some piling on. And I'm all for Philip Morris and its peers paying through the nose if they are to negotiate away their legal woes. But there are limits to how much they can cough up. A payment so large that it cripples the business defeats the purpose of their settling, although that point seems to be getting lost. Besides, no tobacco chief is going to cut his shareholders' throats. Just how much can the industry afford? Tobacco execs have been mum on the subject. It was the antitobacco side that floated $300 billion...
...heat will produce biological life is an insult to science and those who work in the various fields of biology. I suggest that intelligent and fully ordered life such as we have on Earth is not the result of mere chance, but the product of an intelligent Creator. PHILIP BENNETT Belfast, Northern Ireland...