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Deborah J. Hughes-Hallett, head of Math Ar and Quantitative Reasoning A, has never had trouble staffing the 20 sections of the two basic math courses...
...hourlies, hold review sections and help grade the final: there are no central lectures. For 20 to 25 hours of work a week, they earn something like $2000 for a semester, depending on experience. "You can earn more in other jobs," Todd Kaye '81, head teaching fellow for Math Ar, says, "and besides the hardest work comes when you're the busiest, around hourlies and finals...
...lose $5 billion this year, and scores of weak institutions could easily collapse. In 15 months the number of S and Ls on the FSLIC'S list of "problem cases" has jumped from 79 to 246. Last year the agency saved eleven insolvent S and Ls by ar ranging shotgun mergers with healthier institutions. These rescue operations cost the agency $1.3 billion out of its $6.5 billion reserve fund. The bal ance sheet at Economy Savings, however, was apparently so dismal that no takers could be found...
...agents in Miami, acting on the request of the Salvadoran government, ar rested Hans Christ, 30, a Salvadoran businessman, for possible extradition in connection with the murders. His arrest followed the seizure in El Salvador a week earlier of Ricardo Sol Meza, 35, a wealthy industrialist and, significantly enough, part owner of the San Salvador Sheraton. The arrests were based in part on the testimony of a hotel waitress who had witnessed the murders...
...secure new sup plies of iron for Darius and then to far-off Cathay (China), where he is usually treated as a slave instead of an ambassador. His peripatetic existence throws him constantly into the presence of the powerful and influential. He meets, among others, Buddha, Confucius, an ar ray of Indian mystics and holy men, Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles. He knows people who knew Pythagoras and Aeschylus. During his last years in Athens, Cyrus hires a young mason to repair a wall. His name is Socrates...