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Alumni from classes as far back as 1914, including all 14 graduate schools, have been invited to the big bash to ensure diverse representation. While there will be 25 to 50 delegates from each alumni class, at least 50 from each of the four undergraduate classes will return to the College early for the attend the festivities next September, says 350th organizer Thomas W. Stephenson...
From the moment the festivities get underway on Wednesday evening, September 3, with a birthday bash on the banks of the Charles, until the giant stadium jamboree Saturday night in Soldiers Field, celebrants will have fun and frolic galore at their fingertips-and all in the name of higher education...
...four days of festivities, they will toast one another at a mammoth black-tie dinner, join coworkers on six continents in singing Happy Birthday via satellite and enjoy the hoopla of a two-hour parade through downtown Atlanta. Mayor Andrew Young plans to set the tone for the monster bash by belting out, with the help of a 60-piece orchestra and a 1,000-voice choir, one of the biggest hit tunes of the 1970s. The title? I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke, of course...
Hello, Joe Bash. This ABC entry, created by Danny Arnold (Barney Miller), is not only the oddest new comedy of the season, it is also the smartest and most unexpectedly moving. Peter Boyle plays Joe, an embittered middle-aged New York cop who pounds the beat with a brash young partner, Willie (Andrew Rubin). The pair traverse the desolate city streets and cope with the unglamorous trivia of everyday police life. A woman is found dead in her apartment, and Joe and Willie debate what to do with the bag of money she has left. An old man wanders into...
Despite its now well-established popularity with federal prosecutors, however, RICO has its problematic side too. The statute's civil portion allows companies and individuals to bring RICO lawsuits, and because it defines racketeering so broadly, all kinds of legitimate businesses and businessmen are using the law to bash each other around in court. IBM, for example, used the law to sue Hitachi for theft of confidential technology, and reportedly pocketed a settlement of $300 million. New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner aimed RICO against investment partners whom he charged with selling him their interests in a joint venture without...