Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there . . . I should have had a soldier's burial and praise." Instead, the madness acquired 14 years earlier has been carried home, slowly eroding his marriage, his job and his life. A soldier is most vulnerable when he feels safest, he drunkenly repeats, and in the rough country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where people have "no possibilities, no place to go," Chris comes to believe he has stumbled onto enemy ground. He turns his property into a deadly perimeter, rigging it like a minefield for a final conflagration that will burn away his nightmares. In his fourth book, Pulitzer...
...will always have a multitude of choices because of academic scholarships, the choices middle-class students have are significantly more limited than in the 1970s because federal aid hasn't kept up with the increasing cost of college," says Michael L. Donahue, associate director of admissions at University of Michigan...
Tracy A. Matthews, a senior at University of Michigan and member of the campus United Coalition Against Racism, says she knows "a lot of students who have left because they couldn't afford to stay here. I don't know where they go, but it's upsetting--a student shouldn't be forced out of school for that...
...people of Princeton are going to have a lot of work to do," remarked University of Michigan Regent Thomas Roach last week. His comment came on hearing that Michigan President Harold Shapiro, renowned for his 15-hour workdays, would succeed William Bowen next January as Princeton's 18th president. An economist by training (Ph.D., Princeton '64) and a genial if demanding manager by reputation, Shapiro, 51, lifted Michigan in seven years from financial crisis to a prosperous institution loaded with new research facilities. Although guarded about an agenda for his new job, Shapiro, who will be Princeton's first Jewish...
...National Academy of Sciences, tensions build between hard and soft scientists. -- Princeton gets a president from Michigan...