Word: mcgill
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Xerox Journalism. The trustees eventually went along with the award, but not without some soul-searching. Columbia President William J. McGill revealed that "a very substantial number of trustees feel very strongly about the problem of approving a prize which seems to convey that the university is approving illegal acts." Some trustees also balked at rewarding White for a story that may have fallen in his lap. Said McGill: "The feeling is not that the reporter is at fault here but that the award is significant only because of the misdemeanor, and that seems to us to be Xerox journalism...
...dinner table in Sierra Leone, imprisoned, and released just as unexpectedly 141 days later. Having witnessed the confusion and coups of Sierra Leone's birth and growing pains, he realizes that he cannot enjoy a peaceful retirement after a long, lucrative practice like that of most of his McGill classmates. His open-end appointment at Harvard is as secure...
...mature Karefa-Smart left Africa for the first time to study premed courses at Otterbein in Ohio. American medical schools were practically closed to all blacks, so he enrolled at McGill. As a British subject, he was drafted by the Canadian government during World War II, served his time in the Bahamas, and immediately after V-J Day, returned to his home village of Rotifunk...
Forget those ignorant New Jerseyans from Princeton and Rutgers who claim the first gridiron contest dates from 1869 when those two schools first clashed. Instead, the Harvard Athletic Department asserts that it was Harvard's 3-0 victory over McGill on May 14, 1874, that marked the Real beginning of modern football...
...large enough to justify Canada's proposed 50% share of the program's cost. And settling claims with the Eskimos and Indians whose ancestral lands the pipeline would cross could cost billions of dollars. "This is essentially a project to transport Alaskan gas to American consumers," says McGill University Economist Eric Kierans...