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...departments and programs are battling for campaign money, Harvard's ethics program has demonstrated how to win. As a result of its well-constructed bid for funds and presidential support of the teaching of ethics, the University-wide Program in Ethics and the Professions stands to receive a substantial chunk of money from the campaign...
...Bill Clinton threw out the first ball at the Cleveland Indians' opening-day game. But his pitch, high and over the plate, was more than the usual springtime rite. The President helped kick off the baseball season in Jacobs Field, a sleek, brand-new, $169 million stadium, a large chunk of which was financed by a 4.5 cents-a-pack local tax on cigarettes. Yet no one, no matter where they are sitting, is permitted to smoke in the open-air stands...
...five, standing atop tables in a restaurant owned by her parents in a small town near Montreal. At 12 she made her first recordings and soon became la p'tite Quebecoise (little Quebecker), the darling of the whole province. Dion admits to losing a big chunk of her childhood, but not to any regrets. "My favorite game was to sing," she recalls. At 15 she dropped out of school because, she says, "it was taking me away from music, from my happiness, from my dreams...
...Clinton Administration will permit commercial users to take over a large chunk of the radio band that is now controlled by the Pentagon and other federal agencies. The auctioning of 200 megahertz worth of airspace will take 10 years to complete and could raise as much as $7 billion in revenue for the government...
...said he thinks that the "red glow" may have been a chunk of the reactor that was hurled away from the core during the explosion...