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Would your proposed Annual Meeting fair [sic] any better? The consensus among the board is that it would likewise be scantily attended. I brought up the issue at the April 11th meeting, and the chairman, Professor Milton Brown, stated that the Coop had offered meetings for the membership, and that at the last one, only two members had shown up. Now, I'd be happy to meet with any two students who had a concern, and I think the other undergraduate directors would also be willing. But other board members are reluctant to commit to this kind of situation, mainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Make Coop Elections Substantive | 4/18/1990 | See Source »

...athletes are diagnosed each year with spinal disorders or heart conditions that put them at risk for everything from partial paralysis to sudden death. Do they play or don't they? For the doctor, who is liable either way, it is a no-win call. In 1986 Dr. Milton Sands, chief of cardiology at New Britain General Hospital, informed Central Connecticut State University that one of its basketball recruits, Tony Penny, had a serious heart problem. The school took him off the roster. Penny sued Dr. Sands for $1 million and ended up immigrating to England to pursue a career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death on The Basketball Court | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...memory at Illinois' evangelical Wheaton College: one of his old tankards is enclosed there in glass, like a relic. But difficulties face those who would canonize the author of Mere Christianity and the Narnia chronicles. A.N. Wilson, a British writer who has previously taken sensitive measure of Milton, Tolstoy and Hilaire Belloc, portrays Lewis as a blustery, hard-drinking eccentric whose private life included sequential liaisons with two married women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Labor | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Except for the graying of Bush's temples, presidential barber Milton Pitts finds no change in the upper thatch. White House photo hounds claim Bush may have dropped a few ounces from his shoulders to his tummy, but Dr. Burton Lee III says he hung a steady 197 lbs. through all twelve months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Totaling Up Year One | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Brookes writes that "In Budapest and Prague, they are now reading [Milton Friedman's] Capitalism, Freedom and Democracy...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Socialism on the March | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

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