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...Arrogant?--At the University of Chicago, at least, folks aren't so hypersensitive about the presidential search. Although the school has two curious ties to the search--Chicago President Hanna H. Gray is on the search committee and Chicago Provost Gherard Casper has emerged as a leading candidate--Geoffery Stone, dean of Chicago's law school, insists "There's no effect. Only at Harvard would people think that their search has an effect on other campuses...
Philip A. Griffiths and Gerhard Casper are provosts at Duke University and the University of Chicago respectively, and appear on the provisional medium list...
Conservative John Flanagan from West Roxbury, son of District Attorney Newman Flanagan, with 10.9 percent; Joseph Casper from South Boston, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, with 8.2 percent; and Althea Garrison from Dorchester with 4 percent...
...cheeked comic-book character. They both have wealthy fathers: Montgomery's is James Montgomery, chief executive of Great Western, a financial-services company. And Jeffrey is just as precocious as Richie. Last month young Montgomery paid $6 million to buy Harvey Publications, which owns the rights to Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey and other characters...
...initial congressional campaign, and two more followed before he underwent bypass surgery last August. Cheney -- who said last week that he got his cardiologist's O.K. to take the Pentagon job -- generally shrugs off questions about his condition. "Some people are short, fat and ugly," he told the Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune last year. "I happen to have coronary- artery disease...