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...luge and bobsled seem to attract the largest number of Olympic eccentrics, many of whom have found the open-minded governing bylaw about nationality conveniently accommodating. For New Yorker George Tucker, a physicist born in Puerto Rico, Calgary actually offered a chance to improve. At his Sarajevo debut in 1984, Tucker shed alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction...
...another anti-racist action, the university has also agreed to waive a bylaw that would prevent the institution from bestowing an honorary degree upon Nelson Mandela because he would not be able to accept in person, Osley said...
...predicate our actions on fear of alienating a segment of campus opinion is to reject democracy and majority rule. It confines student government to a narrow, bureaucratic sphere. This view espoused by the Council's leadership is already taking its toll. We have considered fewer substantive proposals (and more bylaw amendments) during the course of this semester than ever before. And most of our proposals, other than social events, have responded to the work of the College administration rather than to student initiative...
...concerned, the takeover drama should be called Mission: Impossible. Wall Street analysts agree that a hostile assault would cost at least $4 billion, more than Turner seems capable of raising. CBS has bolstered its defenses by eliminating a company bylaw that allowed a minority of shareholders to call special meetings. In addition, the company opened a $1.5 billion line of credit with a consortium of banks; it could use the funds to buy other companies, making it harder for Turner--or anybody--to swallow CBS. The maneuver churned up rumors that CBS might merge with Time Inc. or sell...
Reardon said the scheduling mixup occurred because both he and McLaughlin had still been working under the former "75 percent rule" that predated the new bylaw and which required only three-quarters of a Division I school's opponents to be from within the division...