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...After an eight-month campaign by campus minority organizations to formalize ethnic studies in the curriculum, the head tutor of special concentrations met with students last night and distributed information on pursuing an ethnic studies program...
...University is entering the final stages of its eight-month search for a new vice president for government, community and public affairs. The position is one of two top-level vacancies left by the resignations of two veteran administrators...
...young man had reason to be wary. He had been busted several months earlier by the feds and was awaiting his sentence, having already pleaded guilty to a crime that was just as high-tech as his favorite nightclub: stealing credit reports from TRW Inc.'s computer system. Four months after that encounter at the Limelight, he moved into a Michigan jail cell, where he is serving an eight-month term...
...long a weak also-ran in late night, sees a chance to become a contender in the increasingly competitive time period. After an eight-month courtship (which began when broadcast group president Howard Stringer approached Letterman at an awards ceremony in April), the network fashions a deal that would pay Letterman more than $14 million a year to move his show, more or less intact, to CBS at 11:30. Letterman would get other benefits as well, including ownership of his program and a chance to produce a companion show at 12:30. Letterman tells his current employer that...
Stir It Up, written to his wife during an eight-month separation, was typical Marley: seductive, soulful and coolly intemperate. The rhythm is easy but the lyrics insinuate, cajole, insist: sexual congress as hip sacrament. It was Marley's unbridled and unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back...