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...know a lot of Black students who got C's-myself included," said Guthrie. "That's a pretty dubious statement, unless he has some evidence to prove...
Yale University's tuition, room and board will break the $25,000 mark next year, giving the school the dubious honor of leading Harvard and the nation's other high-priced private institutions of higher learning...
...Leary. Right now, the 35-year-old comedian is an overnight sensation (the kind that takes more than a decade to happen). The catchphrases in his TV commercials for Nike and MTV ("I got two words for you . . ." and "I think you hear me knocking . . .") just may earn the dubious distinction of becoming the "You look mah-velous" of the '90s. His recent one-man off-Broadway show, No Cure for Cancer, has been turned into a paperback and a comedy-music album that are already in the stores, plus a cable special now playing on Showtime. And Leary...
...that he'll oppose the plan if the freeze on pay for federal workers survives"; Ernest Hollings "has hinted he won't go along unless we cut the deficit even more"; Sam Nunn "hasn't committed to the defense cuts, and without him, forget about it"; Robert Byrd "is dubious, to put it mildly, about any spending cuts at all, which means each of them is going to be a major battle. We've got to get some parliamentary rules that keep the cuts from being considered separately, but Byrd's going to make that a bitch...
...Justice Department has been accused of dubious behavior in its investigation of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, an Italian institution whose Atlanta branch made $4 billion in fraudulent loans to firms owned by or doing business with Iraq. Justice investigators are charged not just with botching their probe into B.N.L.'s transgressions but also with ignoring evidence that B.N.L.'s Atlanta branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, was not solely responsible for the questionable loans. A 163-page Senate Intelligence Committee report issued last week on the affair suggests, however, that most of the Justice Department lapses were due to "bureaucratic bungling...