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...special bus to a reunion Boston Pops concert, I want to remember the days I trudged through snow or rain because the shuttle service is insufficient. When I'm eating at the Union again, I hope I'll think about the 11 days Harvard kept me from my diploma and also closed down the dining halls...
...Investigacion y Formacion Social. CIFAS was one of two Dominican medical schools shut down in May as part of the local government's effort to clear the rep utation of its university system. Only last April, Rector Quisqueya Rivas Jerez was still insisting that "this is no diploma factory." She has since been arrested and accused of falsifying documents...
...lady about the color of her eyes." But it comes out that Ratliff, who is turning 19 as she sits in the recruitment office, did not finish high school. Female recruits must be graduates. "I have to send a lot of good people out the door because of that diploma," he tells...
...French restaurant with hanging baskets and beamed ceiling. On one side of a table sat Dr. Robert Gallo, 47, a brash NIH scientist who started life as the son of a small-town welder and has become one of the nation's leading cancer researchers. Sensitive about his diploma from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia ("I had to fight to prove I was good, because I didn't go to Harvard"), Gallo gained a reputation in 1980 by becoming the first scientist to discover a virus that causes cancer in humans. Now he was claiming another victory: identification...
Such a law faces one major difficulty: there is a fine line in some states between schools that are experimental and those that are illegitimate. It is hard to define a diploma mill. In California, for instance, anyone can set up an "authorized" degree program by providing a list of faculty members and courses and $50,000 in assets (a home qualifies). Southland University in Pasadena, for example, meets all the state requirements. Yet last year the former registrar told the FBI that one student received a B.A. in engineering after submitting a short...