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TEAMREC. PTS 1. Old Dominion 14-0-0 120 2. Penn State 12-1-0 114 3. Maryland 9-3-1 108 4. lowa 11-0-0 102 5. UMass 10-3-0 96 6. North Carolina 7-5-0 90 7. Northwestern 9-2-1 83 8. West Chester 8-2-1 79 9. New Hampshire 6-3-1 70 10. UConn 7-2-1 66 11. Northeastern 6-5-0 61 12. Virginia 8-3-2 55 13. Temple 7-4-1 48 14. Duke 8-4-0 42 15. Syracuse 6-3-0 36 16. Harvard...
...champion of Anglo-Saxon (Protestant) values. The Spaniards had taken guns and the catechism abroad. America, said Mark Twain, took guns and the King James Bible to the Philippines, and President McKinley said he would make the island inhabitants good Christians. For the Chicago fair, sculptor Daniel Chester French, creator of American icons like the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, fashioned a 14-ft. statue of Columbus driving an imperial chariot...
Many Choice proponents, like Chester Finn -- whose proposals for reform appear in a new book, We Must Take Charge -- do not believe school competition will cure all the ills of urban education. Still, Finn asks the blunt question: "Under Choice, would the kids attending inner-city schools be any worse off than they are today?" There is something irredeemably tragic about the question. But equally sad is the difficulty of framing either an affirmative answer or a plausible alternative vision for dramatically uplifting disadvantaged students...
...which is conducting its own investigation, has dismissed the engine division's international sales manager. But the company criticized Chester Walsh, the executive who exposed the scheme under a federal law that protects and rewards whistle-blowers, grousing that he should have reported his suspicions to the company first. Walsh may eventually be able to shrug off his bosses' disapproval. If the charges stick, he could receive as much as 30% of the amount recovered by the government from his company...
...With luck he sells it fast and gets his money back; banks and S&Ls have no desire to run these properties. But buyers are hard to find nowadays. "The market to purchase hotels is dead," says Morris Lasky, chief executive of Lodging Unlimited, a firm based in West Chester, Pa., that specializes in turning around problem hotels. "Banks are not going to lend to new buyers, and there isn't anybody with cash to buy these things." Among the many anxious sellers is the government's Resolution Trust Corporation, which has 160 hotels in its portfolio of failed...