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...Hartwell, whose family has run the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1.2 million) since 1928. In June Hartwell assembled a $156 million package to pay for both modern printing plants and severance for hundreds of his workers. Faced with a money squeeze this month, Hartwell sold a 35% stake to Hollinger Argus, Ltd., a Toronto-based mining firm owned mostly by Conrad Black, a Canadian tycoon whose holdings range from radio stations to supermarkets. Black, who had acquired 14% of the shares in June, ended up winning control of the paper. Though Hartwell remains chairman and editor in chief, Black has appointed...
...protagonist is Eleanor Arroway, director of Project Argus, a Government- sponsored undertaking to comb the universe for alien messages. The time is 1999, when, in Sagan's irrepressibly progressive vision, the President of the U.S. is a woman, and the world's smartest man is a Nigerian. The aliens, however, are stereotypical. By the time their cosmic call is returned, it is clear they are vastly more intelligent and wiser than we are; among other things, they do not seem to have deregulated their telephone system...
...condominium construction site when he refused to remove the sticker from his truck. Snodgrass is suing, and the American Civil Liberties Union argues that his dismissal violated his right to free speech. In another action, Killington has filed a libel suit against the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus newspaper for publishing a cartoon showing two skiers riding a ski lift carrying toilet plungers instead of ski poles. The caption: "Uh-oh, looks like the snowmaking machines are clogged again...
Officials cited larger than expected amounts of federal financial aid and smaller average aid requests as the primary factors in their decision to admit this year's students aid-blind. The Wesleyan Argus...
Haagen's conclusion? Pre-meds, he says, are a different breed: "Persons who aspire to a career in medicine enter college with a set of attitudes, values and motivations that distinguishes there from their classmates."The Weselyan Argus The Wesleyan Argus...