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Kahlenberg suggested several reforms of the school's educational approach, including de-emphasizing grades by adopting a policy similar to that of Yale Law School, which does not count first-semester grades...
Across the South and West, drilling activity for crude oil is at its lowest point in 52 years. The rig count, the best gauge of life in the oil patch, hovered last week near an all-time low of 660. Production from existing fields has shrunk to its lowest since 1962. Scores of drillers, producers and support firms are laying off, folding up or going bankrupt. Warns Denise Bode, president of the International Petroleum Association of America: "The industry is nearing a state of economic collapse...
...Illinois, Clinton is counting on doing well in Chicago. And to do well in Chicago, Clinton is counting on the machine, or rather what's left of the Democratic organization that once ruled the city. Today there are many Democratic organizations in Chicago, and Clinton is favored by most. He won their backing because he was willing to play understudy. The pols who count in Chicago wanted Mario Cuomo. All Clinton asked was that they come his way if Cuomo chose not to run. "He gambled a bit, and it worked," says William Daley, a son of the late mayor...
...hard to tell if the President's desperate act did much good at the polls last Tuesday. As expected, Bush won every contest handily, boosting his delegate count over TV commentator Pat Buchanan 148 to 20. But Buchanan continued to draw a solid third in the Republican contests; in Georgia, where he concentrated his efforts, Buchanan won 36%. The next morning, in a move he admitted was "presumptuous," Buchanan called on Bush to get out of the race. Buchanan, said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "has gone Looney Tunes...
...imaginary legal services of his brother-in-law (who is not an attorney); and the other for defrauding banks in order to buy a $1.75 million mansion in Key West, Fla., that may soon be seized by the feds. With his legal career a shambles, Myerson can still count on one major client: himself. He plans to argue his own case, in what should be the most challenging performance of his life...