Word: boarded
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Under Harvard's umbrella, Radcliffe'sadministrative structure, including itsindependent and self-selecting Board of Trusteesand the college president they choose, wouldlikely be affected by a full merger...
Radcliffe alumnae have been eagerly awaiting anannouncement of any kind from their institutionsince last spring, when news first broke that theRadcliffe Board of Trustees had entered into anintensive round of talks with Harvard withoutconsulting them...
Those words were not some perverse message smeared in lipstick across a rest-room mirror. They were posted on the volunteers' bulletin board of America Online's genealogy site, typed by G. Marie Leaner, a communications consultant in Chicago, looking for her family roots...
Root seeking inevitably demands patience--and ingenuity. Joseph Silinonte, 42, from Brooklyn, N.Y., had scoured U.S. Census, Naturalization and Board of Election documents for the birthplace of his great-great-great-grandfather, saloon owner Charles O'Neil, to no avail. Even an 1887 obituary in the Brooklyn Eagle was no help. Then he remembered that the record of O'Neil's son's marriage in 1872 had contained a little mark indicating a dispensation of banns--forgoing the public announcement, on three successive Sundays, of intention to wed. Silinonte persuaded a diocesan official to take him to the Roman Catholic...
...since Peter Ueberroth made the Olympics into a big business event at the 1984 games in Los Angeles," says Saporito, "the games have changed into a pure money event." Although Johnson & Johnson is the first major company to pull out and sponsors such as Coca-Cola have remained on board, no new corporations have signed on as Olympic backers since the scandal broke. Now some observers believe that the rumbling set off by the Johnson & Johnson decision could turn into an avalanche if the IOC does not succeed in cleaning...