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Faust's husband Charles Rosenberg, a pre-eminent historian of science who teaches at Penn, also has received a tenure offer from Harvard. Faust said yesterday that she and Rosenberg were "very seriously considering" their offers and planned to visit Cambridge next month before reaching a final decision this fall...
Faust would become the third woman in the department's nearly 30-member senior faculty. If Faust and Rosenberg accept the tenure offers, they would not begin teaching at Harvard until the fall of 1990, she said...
Gienapp, who was a visiting associate professor at the University last fall, said he would decide this month if he will accept the lifetime post at Harvard. He added that he could start teaching at the University in September. "If [my wife and I] decide to do this, we would like to do it as soon as possible," he said...
Just when corporate raider Paul Bilzerian seems to have hit rock bottom, his fall from grace goes even farther. Last month Bilzerian, 39, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on nine counts of securities fraud, which carry a potential 45-year prison sentence and $2.25 million in fines. Then last week the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of illegal stock transactions involving seven companies, including his 1988 takeover of Singer. The charges range from lying to the SEC about how he financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares he owned...
Even Indian tribes are raking in money by conducting legal gambling. Congress last fall passed a law making it easier for Indians on reservations to institute any type of gambling that is legal in the states where the % reservations are located. The most popular reservation game is high-stakes bingo. Near Franklin, La., 1,200 people every Saturday night jam into a $2 million bingo hall built last September on the Chitimacha Indian Reservation; that is four times the number of Indians living on the reservation. Each player pays a $45 admission fee and gets twelve bingo cards. The payoff...