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Possessing a bachelor's degree from Penn State and a law degree from Villanova, Trumka also becomes the best-educated U.M.W. leader in history, a fact he did not try to hide during the campaign. Overzealous aides even claimed that Trumka is a member of Phi Beta Kappa; they later admitted he is not. Said one Church worker: "Miners don't give a damn whether their president is a Phi Beta Kappa...
...their education. A 9.8% unemployment rate makes this purpose seem all the more essential. Michael Adelson, 23, who studied psychology at U.C.L.A., has been unable to find a job in his field for a year and a half, and he now wishes he had chosen engineering. He calls his bachelor of arts degree "completely useless...
...husbands smiling lectures on the ravages of the disease to keep them faithful. In a Washington, D.C., bar, a woman recently delivered an impassioned speech to her boyfriend on the many advantages of marrying her, the chief one being that he could escape herpes by dropping out of the bachelor life. Some middle-aged men refuse to date women under 30 in the belief that younger people are more likely to have herpes. A West Coast woman finds that having herpes gives her an excuse for avoiding casual sex. Once she acknowledges that she has the disease, nonserious suitors disappear...
...class of '82 is in a class by itself. It is the largest in history: 945,000 bachelor's degrees, 303,000 master's degrees, 33,300 doctorates and an all-time high of 73,600 first professional degrees. Most of its graduates were born around 1960, at the tail end of the baby boom and the height of national prosperity, and will turn 40 around the year 2000. This class, almost evenly divided between male and female graduates, has great demographic diversity, with many older students and minorities...
...bent-nosed Santa Claus. This silly sweet scene every day galled Hilly but delighted Cooney. "Little kids are the best part of being a celebrity," he said, bouncing a squirmy set of twin babies. "What good is this doing us?" Hilly fumed. As for the pretty girls, Cooney, a bachelor, regretfully subscribes to the boxing axiom that women have ruined more men than war and pestilence. He talks daily by telephone to one young lady friend recuperating from an automobile accident. But for months he has been celibate, admiring the poolside bikinis only from a distance. When he went swimming...