There were a lot of major events in the past two weeks of the type normally covered in this column - the resurgence of violence in Iraq, Eliot Spitzer's seven-diamond mistake and elections in Iran (to name a few). But I decided to take a break from the usual pontificate-about-the-government ...

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Yogi Berra might have called it deja vu all over again. But for Sara Mansur '09, her performance Saturday against Quinnipiac was about knowing how to capitalize.

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In an attack early Saturday morning, improvised explosives were hurled at the off-campus apartment of Yossi Knafo, an emissary from the Jewish Agency for Israel employed by Brown/RISD Hillel. Knafo was home at the time but unharmed by the attack.

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College students and presidents from across the country - including Brown students and President Ruth Simmons - convened in New Orleans this weekend along with former President Bill Clinton, Brad Pitt and James Carville to discuss pressing global issues at the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference.

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In its last game before spring break, the women's water polo team pounded College Water Polo Association North rival Harvard, 12-4, to boost its record to 3-9 overall and 2-1 in league play.

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Gwen Stefani met Bollywood at the annual South Asian Students Association culture show on Saturday night, as tunes from both were featured in the event, which was also filled with MTV hits, traditional South Asian music, carefully choreographed dance pieces and slapstick comedy.

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To the Editor: An article in last week's Herald ("Compute this: CS majors flatline nationwide," Mar. 13) accurately reports computer science enrollments, but is misleading in that it does not include the numbers for joint CS concentrations.

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He may not be working for NASA or the Department of Defense, but one Brown professor can predict the course of climate change with his physics equations.

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At 7 a.m. one day in the last week of February, freshmen living on the east side of Littlefield Hall groggily dragged their blankets anxd pillows into the lounge on the other side of the building, trying to ignore the deafening roar of jackhammers that came bursting through their windows.

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