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Since its media efforts began, the center has shifted its focus from year round programming against drunk driving to focusing on the holidays, when the problem is the greatest, Winsten said...
...Glee Club inaugurated the chapel's reopening yesterday, returning to the building that became its official home nearly 50 years ago. Celebrating what Jameson N. Marvin, director of choral activities, called a "renaissance" for Holden Chapel, the Glee Club began its rehearsal by singing happy birthday to the building...
...Then began what both sides describe as more of a "dating process" than a financial negotiation. Blending two corporate cultures can be a problem in big mergers, but it is far more crucial in small companies. If their employees do not get along with one another and leave for a more congenial atmosphere, the merged company can easily be wrecked...
...their life-insurance policies to enjoy their death benefits while they're still alive. This year alone, more than $1 billion in viatical settlements, only about half related to AIDS, will be brokered, according to the National Viatical Association (NVA), roughly 20 times as much as when the business began. Relatively healthy elderly people are also hawking their policies for some additional income; $3 billion in so-called senior settlements will be brokered this year...
Shaun Fernando, a junior at Texas A&M University, embarked this fall on a rite of passage that began in 1909. Alongside 5,000 of his classmates, he helped construct a massive tower of wood that would be torched before the Thanksgiving-week football game against rival University of Texas. In October, Fernando pitched in for "the Cut," early-morning trips to nearby fields to fell some 5,000 oaks. Afterward students broke ground on the edifice, pounding two thick pine trunks end on end 10 ft. into the earth to serve as a central support. Last week came...