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Hockey runs through the blood of every student and player in Canton, N.Y., but this year's Saints must contend with some heavenly losses to their roster...
...issued, to figure out a host of revised rules that take effect Jan. 1. In many cases, the goal will be to look poorer on paper than they really are. Just how unethical is it, they wonder, to outsmart a system they feel is itself unfair? Parents contend that they are penalized if they save for college or their children take part-time jobs, since such savings reduce the amount of aid they can qualify for. Families who rent their homes may now appear just as rich on paper as mansion dwellers. Whites grumble about affirmative action; top students complain...
What is going on, educators contend, is that many families are profligate in their spending and unwilling to sacrifice for education as previous generations have. "It wasn't until the late '60s that federal aid was considered an entitlement," says Cliff Sjogren, U.S.C.'s dean of admissions and financial aid. Sjogren himself dropped out of the University of Michigan for a year to earn money -- an approach he feels is now rare. "When I went to college in the '40s, my parents really had to sacrifice. Now parents are trying to figure out strategies of getting money rather than saving...
Black and Lake contend that they have refrained from lobbying on issues involved in the campaign and have disclosed to campaign lawyers a list of ( clients, financial holdings and prior lobbying activities. Since early summer, both have promised to forgo lobbying the Executive Branch until after the election...
ATTORNEYS WHO CONTEND THAT DEMOCRATIC PATRIARCH CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, is too ill to stand trial for his alleged role in the B.C.C.I. scandal could well be right. When Clifford sought heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors of a trial could cause a fatal...