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...Business Counselor Marc Cosentino says he thinks students are unlikely to buck that trend for the new program, especially with an improved economy making the work world more attractive...
...send lewd and threatening messages. Yearwood admits to some aggressive flirting -- at one point, he reached out and caressed her cheek -- but denies doing anything wrong. In the end, Swarthmore president Bloom made a decision that some might call Solomonic and others a - novel attempt to pass the buck. Bloom found Yearwood guilty of intimidation (but not sexual harassment) and offered him a deal. If the young man would enter behavioral counseling and take a semester's voluntary leave of absence, Swarthmore would pay his tuition at another college. Yearwood said Columbia sounded good. Soon an application landed in Yearwood...
More bang for your buck: give the Harvard Coop's Joe Connors your business, and take advantage of the $2,000 discount on the 1992 Heritage Limited Edition set of The New Encylopaedia Britannica? Thirty-two volumes of padded leather omniscience is $999 from the Coop. For those with more interesting tastes, $1,100 will buy you the Complete Works of the Marquis de Sade in French, bound in gold-embossed black leather with red endpapers and a red silk book mark from the Pangloss Bookshop, 65 Mt. Auburn Street. Also at Pangloss, a first-edition first-state copy...
...purchasing. "Our staffs would spend all this time writing and proofreading these reports and then sending them around in advance to make sure no one would object. Now people come in here, stand up and fire away." Adds Clifford Vaughan, who is in charge of truck platforms: "Now the buck stops here as far as making decisions and holding people accountable...
...least two reasons. First, at a time when TV viewers are being regaled with lavishly researched documentaries on everything from the Civil War to Duke Ellington, American Indian history is still largely ignored. Second, Turner's effort seems sincerely aimed at making a contribution, not just a buck...