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...begins a one-year leave of absence from her position as head of the IOP Fellows program, said acting IOP Director Mary McTigue. Donovan, who has coordinated the Fellows' activities since 1979, said she does not know whether she will return to the K-School after her one-year hiatus...
Levine soon led federal officials to smaller fish in his insider-trading network, but Boesky's role may also have been uncovered as early as the end of last August. If that is true, the ten-week hiatus between then and the Nov. 14 revelations would mark a truly substantial period of clandestine cooperation between the speculator, the SEC enforcement unit commanded by Gary Lynch, and the Manhattan branch of the U.S. Attorney's office headed by Rudolph Giuliani. The aggressive Giuliani, who has overseen the criminal side of the investigation since Levine was snared, may eventually become almost...
Violence also caused a two-year hiatus in football competition between Harvard and Yale during...
After a 19-year hiatus in diplomatic relations, Israel and the Soviet Union sat down to talk last week. But even before the meeting got under way in Helsinki, the signs were inauspicious. For starters, there was no agreement on issues to be negotiated. Then, while some members of the Israeli delegation eagerly showed up four days early, the Soviets just made it to the Monday- morning meeting. While the Israelis parked 30 yards short of the Council of State compound and walked to the entrance to enable cameramen to film the historic moment, the Soviets steered their blue Mercedes...
...fourth orbiter to replace the shuttle Challenger, which carried seven astronauts to their death on Jan. 28. The new orbiter should be completed by 1991, its estimated $2.8 billion price to be paid in part out of money the space agency will save during the present launch hiatus. With a reduced launch schedule, the President said, the shuttle fleet will no longer carry commercial payloads, giving private industry a strong incentive to develop its own launchers...