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...school on eastern Long Island. There Sununu rose to lieutenant colonel and commanded the other cadets. On graduation day, he won so many awards that the headmaster, rather than call him from his seat again and again, simply handed him a silver bowl and had him stand onstage to collect his loot. Though Sununu insists that he displayed no interest in politics until 1969, his fellow seniors in 1957 voted him Class Politician, as well as Outstanding Senior Student, Outstanding Orator, Most Energetic and Most Likely to Succeed...
...action civil suits filed by investors who claim they lost money as a result of his wrongdoing. The Securities and Exchange Commission is setting up a fund for investor claims, using $400 million of Milken's fine. When that money runs out, investors will be free to try to collect directly from Milken, a process that is likely to dog him for years to come...
Julie Wong '92, who spearheads newspaper recycling efforts for EAC, says she hopes Harvard will institution-alize the program by next year instead of continuing the current practice of having student volunteers collect old newspapers every week...
...curriculum review came as part of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's desire to collect through statistics on each department before offering a detailed plan for expanding the faculty...
Bungee jumping is based on an age-old ritual practiced by the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. Every spring villagers there collect liana vines and wind them into long cords. Young men then scale high wooden towers, lash the vines around their ankles and jump. A successful leap is considered a demonstration of courage -- and a harbinger of a plentiful yam harvest...