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...find anyone I know who has tickets. Even if I do get the tickets I ordered, who wants to go to a dance where you don't know anyone? And who wants to go to a dance populated by people who sat home all summer with stamp and checkbook poised waiting for their invitation? Not me, boy. Unless Friday's announcement says they'll make room for everyone who wants to go, I don't think I want to be there...
...There are three things you need to run a prison," said W.S. Neil, onetime warden of the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville, "a checkbook, a shotgun and the strap." Until the legislature outlawed corporal punishment, Neil routinely ordered the flogging of inmates with a leather strap. Now, as in those days of a generation ago, Tennessee has serious problems with its underfinanced and overcrowded penal system. In July there were riots at three prisons. In October a U.S. judge barred wardens from accepting any more inmates until the prison population was drastically cut. Last month a Memphis sheriff, with...
...posters and flyers distributed on the Wellesley campus Sunday night, the students announced a new service called the Wellesley/HBS Datematch, telling participants they might "marry a man who loves you even if you don't know how to balance your checkbook...
...twice fired. Will I be tagged a troublemaker? Why does my secretary resent picking up my laundry and balancing my checkbook? My boss throws temper tantrums. What do I do? Well, you could ask Andy. In a column published each Wednesday in the San Jose Mercury News, Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a semiconductor manufacturer, answers questions about the woes of the workplace. Since last October, Grove has been dealing with two letters a week in the column "High Output Management," which has been modeled after "Dear Abby...
...business people with the most personal knowledge of Commencement is Paul Corcoran '54 owner of Corcoran's and The Harvard Shop. He's had one of his three children enrolled as a student for the last six year and consulted his checkbook records to come up with the slogan for the T-shirt that he expects to be a best seller...