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...popular figure among the 20,000 nationalist guerrillas still under arms. It was feared that his conviction might spark a violent reaction from ZANU militants. On the other hand, his acquittal seemed likely to enrage the country's 190,000 whites, prompting charges of a political fix and accelerating a white exodus that is now running at a rate of more than 1,000 a month. Wary of all these dangers, Mugabe insisted that the law should take its course...
Nevertheless, a lot of fight fans who had paid up to $1,000 for a seat came away feeling cheated. Cries of "Fix!" echoed through the embarrassingly uncrowded Superdome and carried over into the narrow streets and bars of the nearby French Quarter far into the night. The Louisiana Athletic Commission slapped the fighter with a $7,500 fine for "unsatisfactory performance...
...what artist of his generation could inject more evocative intensity into his work, or fix it with such deft, concise images...
Richard Moll, 45, a tweedy graduate of Yale's Divinity School, has become a Dr. Fix-It for colleges that complain of sagging enrollment. As director of admissions for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., Moll brought a slice of pizazz to the countrified, 186-year-old alma mater of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Moll persuaded Bowdoin to allow applicants to skip the College Board exams, an attention-getting move, and he issued a new college brochure splashed with photos of sunsets, lobster pots and the Maine seacoast. Results during Moll's eight years at Bowdoin, applications...
...Fix-It has taken on yet another patient, this time a newish school suffering from a trendy reputation rather than the handicaps of tradition-the University of California at Santa Cruz...