There was an old couple who lived in a shoe ““ or boot HELLAM, Pa. ““ Along a two-lane country road, the scenery offers up the architecturally impossible, or so it would seem ““ a 25-foot-tall beige stucco replica of a man’s work boot worthy of Paul Bunyan. Read more...

In her tenure as executive director of the Associated Students of UCLA, Patricia Eastman led one of the country’s largest student enterprises from near financial ruin to relative stability. Read more...

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With the recall election a week away and neither Tom McClintock nor Arnold Schwarzenegger looking to drop out of the race, the Bruin Republicans are hard-pressed to decide which of the two GOP frontrunners to endorse. Read more...

Had he followed his original passion, Robert Dynes could be a retired hockey player with a crooked nose and missing teeth. Instead, Dynes, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, will take office Thursday as the 18th president of the UC system. Read more...

University of California President Richard Atkinson will be leaving office today, two years after catalyzing nationwide changes in standardized college entrance examinations. As a result of Atkinson’s recommendations, in 2005, students across the country will begin taking a drastically revamped version of the SAT. Read more...