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FORGET ABOUT WHETHER RUTH BADER GINSBURG WILL MAKE IT TO THE Supreme Court. What Washington journalists really want to know is which of them will get Paul Duke's job as moderator of PBS's venerable news-analysis show, Washington Week in Review. Since June, when Duke, 66, announced his decision to retire, much of the national press corps has been gaga over the prospect of succeeding him. At last count more than 50 applications had been submitted, including many from print journalists who, in other circumstances, enjoy belittling TV. But never mind consistency -- the Washington Week...
...determined beyond all doubt that bones discovered two years ago at Ekaterinburg in the Urals are those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. DNA from the remains was compared with that of samples taken later from Romanov descendants -- among them Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The tests shed no light, however, on the fates of the young Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia, who may have survived the execution...
Keller said such housing allowances vary according to factors such as where the professor is moving from. Gates came from Duke University in Durham North Carolina, where housing is inexpensive relative to prices in the Boston area...
Only last year, Allen Roses, a Duke University neurologist, seemed out in left field in terms of research on Alzheimer's disease, the dread brain disorder that afflicts as many as 4 million Americans. His theory that a particular gene puts people at high risk for Alzheimer's just didn't get much attention or respect from fellow scientists. But after months of tirelessly making his case, Roses is no longer dismissed; instead he is being courted by drug companies eager to use his research to find a diagnostic test and treatment. At a medical meeting in New York City...
...Duke University, included in the short lists of many of the Harvard admits to the Class of 1997 interviewed, offers the Reginald Howard Memorial Scholarship to the top seven Black students admitted. The scholarship awards the students $6,000 per academic year, based on leadership and academic abilities...