Volume 117 >> Issue 39 : Friday, September 5, 1997

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News

• TBP Kicks Off Dinner Series To Celebrate Spirit of da Vinci
• The Observer Looks To Serve Community
• Institute Places Sixth in U.S. News Rankings
• CPs Report Slight Drop in Larcenies On Campus
• Residence and Orientation Week News in Review
• Police Log
• Erratum

World and Nation

• Three Palestinian Bombers Injure 170, Kill Four Others
• Supreme Court Will Not Block California's Proposition 209
• Royal Family Orders Flag Flown At Half-Mast to Remember Di
• World Briefs I
• World Briefs II
• Weather: A Warming Trend

Columns

• All the President's Ships: Presidential Vacations Were Better When They Belonged to the Sea
• Dealing Students A Wild Card: Dorm Desks Make a Mockery of MIT Card Security
• On Smoke, Substances, And Sex

Letters to the Editor

• Charles Deserves Respect, Not Sodium
• R/O Showed MIT Spirit Is Strong

Comics

• Dammed for Life -- By Je ssica
• Rhino Man -- By Zachary Em ig

Sports

• After Wild Weekend, NFL Should Return to Normalcy

Photographs

Courtney Clench -- The Tech
A street performer distributes flowers to passers-by in memory of Princess Diana on Sunday afternoon in Harvard Square.

Wan Yusof Wan Morshidi -- The Tech
SODIUM DROP -- Huge chunks of solid sodium thrown off the Longfellow Bridge explode in the Charles River.