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...peace circle. Rabin offered no details and said there were still "huge gaps" between his government and Syrian President Hafez Assad over ending nearly half a century of conflict. On Sunday, Rabin will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who shuttled to Syria last week. Days later, Rabin will confer with Secretary of State Warren Christopher in an attempt to break the deadlock...
President Neil L. Rudenstine will confer 5,335 degrees on students graduating from the University this morning...
...lightning quick, a classic trader and a gambler," says an entertainment-industry executive. "He looks at Sumner, who is 70. He eats Biondi instantly. He comes out on top." In a sign of Huizenga's likely clout, Redstone flew to Blockbuster headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week to confer with his new partner. Says the Viacom chairman: "I've been down here telling Wayne that the more roles he plays in this, the happier we're going to be." Adds Huizenga: "We're in the middle of the conversation. We haven't buttoned it all down...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject. We're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...
Linda M. Pedelty, a dog-owner and proctor inWeld Hall, said the benefits pets confer outweightheir risks...