Word: michigans
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After working at several foundations as an economist assisting developing nations in Latin America and Southeast Asia, Wharton served as president of Michigan State University from 1970 to 1978, and then as chancellor of the State University of New York, the nation's largest university system. He holds 51 honorary degrees...
...over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety...
...companies, announced it would not continue to sponsor the show. Chrysler did not advertise on the April 30 show because of the media sensationalism surrounding that particular episode. We did resume our advertising on the May 7 show. MEGAN GILES, Dodge Brand Public Relations Manager Chrysler Corporation Auburn Hills, Michigan...
...political tables in Washington for the first time since the election. Democrats on the Senate and House committees investigating 1996 campaign irregularities seized the moment to demand subpoenas of Young, his employees and company records. "There are possibilities here of...illegal foreign contributions," said Senator Carl Levin of Michigan...
...warplanes to nations in troubled regions, yet few protest when America sells equally deadly technology. I hope the Defense Department will gape with the same horror if, in combat with an unstable Latin American nation, American planes encounter aircraft that are equally deadly (and American made). BRETT MACKELLAR Gaylord, Michigan...