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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foppiano alleges that the MIT student grabbed the razor and cut her face before she was able to break free. She later flagged down a car and told police of the incident in Central Square...
...republic's Supreme Soviet endorsed the annexation demand in June, but Azerbaijian and central authorities in Moscow refused to give their consent...
...movie, based on a book by Eliot Asinof, tries to answer one central question: what would drive these eight men to sacrifice the game of baseball for $10,000 dollars apiece? Sayles, who also plays Ring Lardner, a Chicago sportswriter who suspects wrongdoing in the Series, offers an explanantion--the stinginess of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey (Clifton James) While Comiskey courts the Chicago media with champagne-catered press conferences, he gives his players flat champagne and no extra bonuses for winning the pennant...
THOUGH highly controversial, Bennett's attacks on Harvard, Stanford, and other prestigious institutions have raised central questions concerning the mission of colleges and their proper role in society. And even a well-respected education leader like David Breneman, president of Kalamazoo College, essentially admitted the validity of Bennett's complaints when he said that many colleges, including his own, increase their tuitions in order to gain the elite recognition usually accorded to high-priced colleges...
BACK then, Bok and other Harvard officials cited ethical concerns that remain just as relevant today. Bok argued at the time that companies' desires to keep trade secrets may be fundamentally incompatible with academia's commitment to freedom of information. Furthermore, such investments "could confuse the University's central commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and learning by introducing into the very heart of the academic enterprise a new and powerful motive--the search for commercial utility and financial gain," Bok said...