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Stanford University will extend its campus 3000 miles to open a special branch in Washington, D.C., for students to intern in the nation's capital without suspending their work towards a Stanford diploma...

Author: By Karen W. Levy, | Title: Stanford Plans D.C. Site for Interns | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

That may prove more difficult for Du Pont, 51. One of the heirs to the family chemical fortune, he has a Princeton engineering degree, a Harvard law diploma and an aversion to the use of his full name: Pierre Samuel du Pont IV. His squarejawed phiz recalls Nelson Rockefeller, another millionaire Republican who inched to the right but never erased his progressive image. As a member of the U.S. House for three terms (1971-77), Du Pont compiled a moderate voting record. His views began to change, he says, during his successful tenure as Governor, when he adopted a species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patrician and the Preacher | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...problem: he is girl-simple, as his associates accurately put it. He could be content with living the good life as a respected professional man, blasting some slob with an assault rifle here, acing out several losers with cyanide grenades there, and studying hard for his high school diploma at night school, where he earns the respect of all and is voted secretary-treasurer of his class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mafioso Prizzi's Family | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

This spring, Section D asked her to send them a curriculum vitae to be included in the group's resume binder. And on graduation day, they tried unsuccessfully to have Betsy Spence awarded a diploma, with their version of a Betsy Spence-look-a-like ready to accept...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Mystery Business School Student Revealed | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

After walking out of Harvard with diploma in hand tomorrow, Jeffrey C. Levy '86 plans to travel abroad with his friends for a "last hurrah together" before plunging into the professional world. No, he and his friends will not be walking on the Champs Elysee this summer. They'll be hiking along China's Great Wall. Not because they prefer Chinese food, but because, as Levy says, "the terrorist stuff pushed us eastward...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Travelling and Trembling Over Terrorism | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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