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Wright, whose organization represents state school chief executives, said that cur-rent measurements of graduation rates assume students will earn their degrees within six years...
...gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly Parker); and E.B. Farnum, a hotel owner and Swearengen's beaten-cur sycophant (William Sanderson, Newhart's Larry), and you have a typical--if dysfunctional--horse-opera cast...
...before TV, sportswriters had more power. When they rouged up a rough image or drew a mustache on a hero, the picture stuck. Williams didn't care to smile for the camera, so the writers painted him as a surly cur. They didn't like him in 1942, when he won the Triple Crown (batting average, home runs, runs batted in) but lost the MVP to the inferior Joe Gordon...
...There have been cases before, [but] they have generally been settled," says Harvey A. Silverglate, who represents one of the plaintiffs in the cur- rent lawsuit...
Trying to access these funds for cur-rent use is often a headache for Harvard's financial braintrust, and one of the main tasks of Development Office staff is to prevent the possibility that current gifts may become outdated...