Word: georgetown
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...pass along the savings. Penn hopes to save $12 million next year by closer management of employee benefits. Cornell is reducing operating expenditures across the board by 2%, allowing it to post a 7% tuition increase, its smallest in 14 years. A few institutions are dropping secondary programs. Georgetown, for example, has eliminated one-third of its graduate programs in the past five years and recently decided to close its dental school. "We can't be all things to all students," says Treasurer George Houston...
...bring home the gold, Rhythm Method will have to beat the New Buicks from Georgetown University, the Beat Clinic from the University of Delaware, and Byzon Iz Pyzon from State University of New York at Fredonia, Wertz said...
...that Lew Alcindor and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the same person." Coach John Wooden's ten championships over twelve seasons -- the great '60s and '70s stewardships of Alcindor, Bill Walton and Sidney Wicks -- are distant memories. The last three dominators to frequent the Final Four -- Virginia's Ralph Sampson, Georgetown's Patrick Ewing and Houston's Akeem Olajuwon -- won one title among them. Other sports only talk of parity...
That seems the charm, though the charm is not always what it seems. In the championship game two years ago, Villanova was directed to an implausible 66-64 victory over Georgetown by an appealing point guard named Gary McLain. The Wildcats' pizzaman coach, Rollie Massimino, said in the afterglow, "I've screamed at this group more than any other, not because they are such good players but because they are such good kids." McLain described Massimino as "a brother, a friend, a father, your boss, your coach...
...Friars proved that they could score from the inside as well in their Mideast Regional championship game against Georgetown. In the 88-73 victory, only 15 Providence points were scored from outside the three-point line...