Word: michigans
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Compared with predecessors Mao and Deng, he enjoyed an easy revolution, and he had a far more worldly upbringing. "I wouldn't describe him as a closet Western-culture buff," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China scholar at the University of Michigan, "but he has a more appreciative attitude than many Chinese." He once told an American visitor that he regretted not earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but one of his sons did get his from Philadelphia's Drexel University and worked for Hewlett-Packard in California before returning to China...
...Michigan's defense, which went into the game ranked first nationally having allowed just 5.2 points per game, held lowa (4-2) to 187 total yards and just three points after halftime...
...others who are for the defense of affirmative action to organize marches and demonstrations as part of a national day of action. Please contact the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) at bamn@umich.edu or call (313)730-3577. --Jessica Curtin, BAMN member, University of Michigan senior...
Judges in eight states have temporarily suspended enforcement of the legislation, and in Michigan the state law has been declared unconstitutional. Both sides expect the issue to reach the Supreme Court, but in the meantime there is no respite in the trenches. Other court decisions may be made where judgments are pending. And legislators in several states are preparing reworded bills, designed to get around judicial rulings, for next session...
...rehearsal for this moment. He once told an interviewer that his favorite movie is The Lion King because it mirrors his struggle. Reared on Detroit's West Side, Hoffa was an honors student and a local football hero. In 1967, a year after he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, his father was forced from office and jailed after a federal-court conviction for jury tampering. In July 1975, Hoffa mysteriously disappeared from the parking lot of a suburban Detroit restaurant. No one has ever been charged with the presumed murder...