Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yancey, who is Black, has been boosted of late by the endorsement of the Boston Globe, which cited his long record in fiscal management when it chose the long-shot aspirant...
...want to go. "We're disappointed, selfishly, because those students aren't enrolling here," says Jean Fetter, dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford, whose yield of 60% is second to Harvard's. A Harvard admission can be regarded as such a prize that one Wall Street lawyer, though he chose not to attend, keeps his framed acceptance on his wall so that other people will know he could have gone there...
...missed years of education." The problem is intensified by the fact that a bare 1.4% of university faculty -- prime role models -- are black. This too is typical of many other universities. But Harvard faced the special difficulty this year that nearly half of the qualified black applicants offered admission chose not to attend, in part because of a perceived racial coolness in the Boston area...
...When he flies, he goes tourist class (and gets a wry pleasure out of occasionally seeing some grant-enriched professor in first). He seems quite unconcerned about his salary ($128,900), which is less than he pays several of his deans. He was the first president since 1911 who chose not to live in the presidential mansion in the Yard, preferring to remain in his colonial home in Elmwood. As he walks across the Yard, he often stoops to pick up pieces of litter...
...Were the death penalty applicable," said U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello in a memorandum to San Francisco federal district court, "the Government would undoubtedly be seeking the death penalty in this case." Since federal law does not provide capital punishment for peacetime espionage, Judge John Vukasin chose the closest thing: he sentenced Jerry Whitworth, a member of the Walker family espionage ring, to 365 years in prison. Whitworth will not be eligible for parole for 60 years, when he would be 107. "Jerry Whitworth," said Vukasin, "is a zero at the bone," a man who had betrayed his country for money...