In 1993, George Anastasia says, Philadelphia mob boss John Stanfa ordered his death. The plan was supposedly to throw grenades through the windows of Anastasia's New Jersey home. However, his life was saved when his would-be killers landed behind bars before they had a chance to whack him.

When the fall elections roll around next month, citizens will hold Republicans accountable for the page sex scandal.

The spotlight was on Maria Anisimova yesterday as she defeated a player from North Carolina in the finals of the Flight C singles match at the National Tennis Invitational in New York. The freshman came out of nowhere, defeating players from high-level programs and advancing further than any Penn player.

Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md. His e-mail address is farah@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Some Penn students thrive on cheesesteaks and chili fries, and Penn Dining - let alone the city Health Department - doesn't seem to have any plans to stop them. But some government officials are on a hunt to remove the unhealthiest of fats from their citizens' diets.

Jurors will likely decide the fate of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya sometime today, lawyers say.

Students rushing to class may find it just a little less arduous to navigate Locust Walk, if the Undergraduate Assembly has its way. At last Sunday's meeting, the UA passed a proposal - spearheaded by Nursing junior Alexandra Kotsovos - to urge the University to start fixing the many problems that they believe plague Locust Walk.

As shown with the coverage of the Nickel Mines shooting, people too often view religious people as 'different.'

Penn must show some responsibility for the working conditions of its guards.

Bill Berner compares himself to Igor, the famed lab assistant to Dr. Frankenstein. Both toil in windowless basement laboratories - though Berner's is in David Rittenhouse Laboratory, not Bavaria. Berner, like Igor, concocts things that buzz, fizz and bang, although the professors he works with aren't insane; they're in Penn's Physics department.

This year, budding entrepreneurs competing for thousands of dollars worth of prizes in the Wharton Business Plan Competition need to fulfill an additional criterion - they must be Indian. The annual competition - which usually requires that candidates be affiliated with the University - recently teamed up with a leading Indian newspaper to offer the same entrepreneurial opportunities to Indian college students.

A quick fix for Penn InTouch isn't going to make class registration any easier, officials say, but neither will just talking about it. Penn InTouch has been under heightened scrutiny since last month, when Engineering and Wharton senior Danny Panzer released ClassBuster, a computer program that notifies users when space in a closed-out class opens up.

Just as a rubber bracelet fad struck America a few years ago, terra cotta ornaments were all the range in ancient India, one anthropologist says. University of California at Los Angeles professor Monica Smith used colorful PowerPoint slides to discuss the findings from her excavation of the ancient Indian city of Sisupalgarh yesterday in the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - On Saturday night, Harold Ford Jr. was in fine form. Saturday marked the first debate in the Tennessee Senate race - a race that may decide which party controls the Senate come January - and Ford, the Democrat and a 1992 College graduate, certainly had his own style.

'Do you bat, or bowl?" The question catches me off-guard. I don't do either, and certainly not nearly as well as these guys do.

It was about two in the morning 365 days ago after another long night as a DP sports editor. I was about ready to leave the office when I got an interesting phone call from another editor. He told me that he had heard from a friend of his that his football-player roommate was abruptly summoned somewhere, and the roommate returned in tears.

LEWISBURG, Pa.- Marcello Trigg took the snap early in the second quarter likely already thinking he could have picked a better week for his first college start. The Bucknell quarterback rolled left and looked for a receiver, but all he saw was Penn linebacker Joe Anastasio, who one quarter earlier had laid out Trigg just as he delivered a pass.