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...three Ds, a C and an E, Gay was direct in his threat. “This will, I fear, be your last opportunity to make good at Harvard,” he wrote to Wilcox on March 17, “for if your grades in April fail to meet the requirements, the Board could do nothing but request you to withdraw...
...petition, sponsored by the Yale Friends of Israel, claims that divestment would undermine Israel’s economy and fail to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Posted yesterday at www.yaledontdivest.org, it responds to demands made last week by a group of students, faculty and alumni that the school terminate investments in corporations doing business in Israel...
...acronym for "Everything or Nothing"--the company based in London that has produced all the official Bond films. (Never Say Never Again, in which Connery played 007 for the first time in a dozen years, is considered a rogue agent.) When Cubby's health began to fail in the 1990s, the pair stepped up to take his place. Wilson had been co-producing since 1985's A View to a Kill, and Barbara had been an assistant director and associate producer in the 1980s (see box). Their first effort: GoldenEye, a high-tech, high-speed 1995 hit that proved...
...study by researchers at the University of Virginia, 75% of divorced men and 66% of divorced women remarry, but these remarriages have a notoriously high casualty rate, especially when children are brought into the mix. Remarriages with children at home are half again as likely to fail as those with no stepkids. This multiple-married and redivorced demographic means that many Americans are forced to invent new connections across unconventional family ties...
...Crimson executed its game plan without fail in the second half by maintaining possession and quickly forcing turnovers deep in the Spartans’ defensive end after losing the ball. Michigan State sustained little second-half offense other than two penalty corners...