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...given the economic and administrative powers of a province, although it remains part of Sichuan. For the past two years the city has become an economic laboratory for the country. Chongqing has plants that produce trucks, buses, machine tools, chemicals, textiles and munitions. It has ample supplies of high-grade coal, natural gas and iron ore, as well as rich red earth, which provides an abundance of vegetables and grain. Thus it is an ideal testing ground for the plans of Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, a Sichuan native son, who wants to streamline China's bureaucracy, increase economic incentives...
Such loyalty is highly lucrative. Bartosh reports that regular-season gate receipts plus the revenue from the state playoffs netted the school about $320,000. It costs $92,000 to run the entire football program, seventh through twelfth grade. The extra money pays for the school's other sports, known to some in these parts as "the lesser sports...
...most unusual gift, if not his largest, was a guarantee of college tuition for 61 pupils at P.S. 121. Lang was making a sentimental visit to his old school, and in the middle of what he recalls as a paralyzingly dull, rehearsed speech to the graduating sixth grade, the inspiration came to him. Suddenly he broke off and told the astounded youngsters that he would give them each $2,000 toward college tuition, with more where that came from, if they stuck with their books and finished school. Later he followed with a letter to every pupil, declaring "I will...
Twenty-four juniors with some of the highest grade point averages in the College were elected last week to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the national collegiate honors society...
...Given the talent at Harvard, I figured I wouldn’t be any kind of academic star here, so I really took off the grade point pressure,” said Elizabeth W. Carlisle ’06, a folklore and mythology concentrator. “I came in with a commitment to learn and enjoy my classes, to take advantage of being around people who were smarter than me, and the grade point just happened...