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...like to know how it works out when it's done right," says Menzie of B.U.'s experiment in educational reform. "But I find it distressing that every school which wants to reform must buck democracy...
Three Lionel residents took a strange and unusual study break Monday night, stripping buck naked and bolting across part of the Yard, according to witnesses and one of the residents...
...maybe it's just a small, exotic slice of humanity that has changed, the subspecies called celebrities. The decorous public figures in Penn's photographs have become Leibovitz's feral children. Buck naked, streaked with paint or hanging from trees, they sport through the pages of her book and across the walls of the International Center of Photography in New York City, where a retrospective of Leibovitz's work is on view through Dec. 1, before traveling across the U.S. and Europe...
When Eddie is forced through blackmail to aid a gang of hoodlums bent on disrupting the flight, his feelings are those which one would expect from a "simple" man. "He hated crooks. Too greedy to live like regular people and too lazy to earn a buck, they cheated and stole from hardworking citizens and lived high on the hog...The electric chair was too good for them...
...around the world certainly allowed B.C.C.I. to flourish far too long. The alliance with Altman and Clifford's First American Bankshares was clearly -- and apparently successfully -- designed to win respectability in the American power establishment. The link with Paul's CenTrust S&L was a pipeline to the fast-buck financial arrivistes of the '80s -- a joining of hands by what history may well describe as the two great scandals of the century...