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Potential tournament contender West Virginia had its tennis program suspended earlier this week due to NCAA rules infractions, and the Mountaineers' departure opens up a spot for Dartmouth.

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: M. Tennis Beats Army Badly, 7-0 | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

Harvard's closest contender in faculty salarieswas Princeton, where the average professor willearn $96,300 this year. Brown fell to the bottomof the Ivy League salary ranking this year--fullprofessors there will earn an average of $75,200.

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Harvard Profs Get Most Pay | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

Sources have said that Dean of the KennedySchool Albert Carnesale is a leading contender forthe post. Corlette said President Neil L.Rudenstine was still looking for someone to fillthe post.

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Public Affairs Office Admits Mishandling | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

The rest is more ordinary. Rigg is wonderful in quiet moments but awkward in striving for the unchained melodrama that Zoe Caldwell achieved in a 1982 revival. The balance of the cast, also from London, is workmanlike, save for Nuala Willis, whose keening songs redeem that most archaic of theatrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Serial Mom | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

Until last week, p53, the subject of some 1,000 scientific papers in 1993 alone, was considered the most important cancer gene. The journal Science even named it Molecule of the Year. But now there is a new contender for notoriety -- MTS1, as Alexander Kamb and his colleagues refer to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

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