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Instead of standing on a side and knowing what is wrong and what is right, we stand in a great gray area (another favorite color of moderates). In this new world, where most voters split their tickets, Americans find ourselves without a clear notion of what our politicians really believe...
...another day. "The Senate isn't ready to take a stand yet," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "Half of them like McCain's resolution, and the other half want to keep some control for themselves and make Clinton come to them if he wants ground troops. The split crosses party lines. The leadership would rather not have to choose...
...Saturday doubleheader sweep of traveling partner Dartmouth, coupled with Friday's Brown-Yale split, made the Harvard baseball team Red Rolfe Division champions for the fourth straight season last weekend...
...Harvard split yesterday's doubleheader at O'Donnell Field, dropping the opener, 4-1, before bouncing back with John Birtwell's 9-0 win in the nightcap...
...movie version of the 1950s, schools split into two camps: the fresh-scrubbed kids (frats, preppies) and the leather-clad rebels (hoods, greasers). It's more complicated these days. Columbine's 1,935 students look a lot alike--mostly white, well off and primed for success. But students have no trouble ticking off a startling number of cliques--jocks, hockey kids (a separate group), preppies, stoners, gangbangers (gang-member wannabes), skaters (as in skateboarders) and, as they say, nerds. Other high schools have variations on these themes. California has its surfer cliques, and Austin High School in Texas...