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...dropped about 10%. One result is that some minority students are steering away from the elite colleges. Princeton, for example, is seeing a falloff in black enrollments, from 345 in 1980 to an estimated 316 this year, a trend that may be spreading to other select colleges. "With grant money frozen and tuitions going up," says Reginald Wilson of the American Council on Education in Washington, "black students have to pay more college costs out of their own pockets. Many now just can't afford...
...committed what is called a mercy killing The jury saw only the killing; they felt Gilbert had mercy on himself. He was sentenced to 25 years with no chance of parole, which would make him 101 by the time he got out. The Governor has been asked to grant clemency. Most Floridians polled hope that Gilbert will go free...
...them Russian, and by his fecundity in providing peerless ballets for children to employ their little fund of steps (The Nutcracker) or to aspire to (Serenade, a signature work he began within ten weeks of the school's opening). Starting in 1963, the school also benefited from then unprecedented grants of nearly $6 million from the Ford Foundation, which allowed it to recruit the best prospects nationwide and bring them to Manhattan on full scholarship. The money was a virtual endorsement of Balanchine's technique and style over any other. The grant accomplished its long-range purpose: today at least...
...Space Policy Working Group, which includes representatives of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Council for a Livable World and other anti-SDI groups, meets to plot countermoves. Two anti-SDI groups, the Arms Control Association and the Committee for National Security, recently received a $1 million grant from Actor Paul Newman (financed in part by his sales of Newman's Own salad dressing) to set up a program to educate journalists about arms control, especially the evils of Star Wars...
...comes on as a Broadway blusterer, yet claims he never goes to "commercial pap" like Cats and Dreamgirls. Then what's he doing writing for a blue-collar tabloid? Your other co-workers are more credible. Your boss (James Farentino) seems to hate spunkiness as much as Lou Grant did. And Jo (Katey Sagal), the cynical columnist, couldn't be a better foil if she had been invented by TV comedy writers...