Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December 1987 Mitnick was convicted of stealing software via telephone from a Santa Cruz, Calif., company. He got 36 months' probation for that crime, but the record of his offense has somehow vanished from police computers. Federal authorities suspect, although they have not proved, that he also planted a false and damaging story on an electronic financial-news network concerning a company that refused...
...student's creativity are especially popular. Five years ago, Bowdoin College in Maine received just two; last year it got 100. The variety is astonishing: tap-dancing routines, karate demonstrations and music videos. Not all audiovisuals are helpful, however. When an applicant to the University of California at Santa Cruz submitted a taped comedy routine with sexist and racist jokes, admissions director Joe Allen was so offended that he eliminated the student from contention...
...baseball's great ironies that the Yankees are one of the last teams not to have players' names on the back of the uniform. ("Number 21? Last year it was Pasqua, then it was Clark. I think Cruz also wore it.") Steinbrenner likes to keep his audience guessing, and besides, putting names on uniforms would cost too much money...
...older students into campus life, Chatham College, a small liberal arts school for women in Pittsburgh, renovated a separate dorm for adults. Berry Hall is convenient, affordable ($350 a month for a mother and child, including utilities); day care is provided nearby. The University of California at Santa Cruz, where 1,500 of the 9,000 students are beyond the keg-party stage, provides subsidized family housing...
...have accomplished my dream now," said Kenya's Paul Ereng after his stunning upset victory in the 800-meter race. He had completed the two laps in 1:43.45, comfortably ahead of defending champion Joaquim Cruz of Brazil and the celebrated Said Aouita of Morocco. Ereng, 20, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, began competing in the 800 meters only this year and had not been expected to place in Seoul.Instead he led a return of Kenya to the head of the distance pack...