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...work led to the arrest of 23 people, including one student from Cornell and another from Ithaca College, for selling or possessing LSD and marijuana. A Long Island University student, Andrew Gluck, 22, was accused of being a major supplier of drugs in Ithaca. Some of the sales, police contend, were made in Willard Straight Hall, Cornell's student union...
...devastating," Coach Jack Barnaby said. "His game has the effect of never allowing the opposing player to get set. Only the best players in the world are able to contend with...
...contend that national educational quality would be immeasurably better served by taking the money now spent on private preparatory schools as well as whatever amounts Dean Sizer hopes the federal government will spend in aid to these obviously impoverished institutions and give them instead to the schools truly in need of help--in the slums and rural areas. The $170,000 to be spent by the Danforth Foundation for its "study" of prep schools alone would pay for a full year's improved operation of the public school systems in any one of a number of counties in West Virginia...
...weight. Never does he give the reader a sense of the wildly conjectural nature of his evaluation. Never does he acknowledge that Chambers' errors could derive not from "a magical art of doing and undoing," but from an all-too-earthly had memory. The analyst will of course, contend that people forget and remember by subconscious design, but in specific instances a man's faulty testimony -- unless it fits a really obvious pattern -- is hardly something to be strongly emphasized. One could probably pick a date of a hat and find a significance for it in just about anyone...
...average, about 30 students a year are dismissed, or allowed to resign, for violation of the code-about 1% of the cadet wing. Some critics of the Academy contend that the standards are both unnecessarily stringent and unworkable. Nonetheless, the Air Force and the cadets themselves agree that an honor code is absolutely essential to the training of officers and gentlemen who will be responsible for the lives of other...