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...thank for that access. "We used to wish we had the technology to do things," says Ian Schrager, the man who pioneered the affordable-boutique-hotel trend. "Now technology is giving us things we don't even know how to use yet." London hotel guests in Schrager's St. Martin's Lane can alter the color scheme of their room simply by adjusting a knob next to the bed. Computerization and new materials have made production of just about anything cheaper and more efficient, and quality easier to maintain...
After graduating from a St. Louis, Mo., high school where she was one of very few blacks, Elizabeth Johnson wanted to "try something different." She enrolled at Lincoln University, a historically black college founded by African-American Civil War veterans in Jefferson City, Mo. But Johnson was in for a shock when she arrived at her first class. "I was the only black face in the room," recalls the 19-year-old sophomore...
...union on the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King campus building. The dorms, fraternities, sororities and other social activities are dominated by blacks. "It's really sad," says Tanya Servick, a 19-year-old communications major who is African American. Josh Cleveland, 19, a creative-writing major from St. Louis, says he commutes because he feels that whites like him aren't welcome in the dorms. "There were some white students who lived here a few years back that got run out," he says. "I didn't want to go through the same thing." (Administrators say they haven...
...devastating to both players and their teams. The reform movement sprang from a spate of NCAA suspensions for sins that are, at best, abstruse. Seven big-name players have missed games this season for alleged rules violations that occurred while they were still in high school. Most notably, St. John's University's star point guard, Erick Barkley, was suspended for taking $3,150 in scholarship aid from a church group to help offset his $23,500 prep-school tuition. "We feel that a lot of these players are getting a bad reputation and are being vilified in the eyes...
...eyes. As I was about to learn, he has been lying in wait for just the right moment to skitter out and chip away at George W. Bush and Al Gore, and that moment has arrived. Buchanan's plans this week include everything from national television appearances to a St. Patrick's Day fund-raising bash...