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...finance, Scott held several administrative positions at M.I.T. and Harvard, and served as Harvard's vice president for administration from 1982 until 1987. His resume lists more than two dozen separate appointments as a management and computer systems consultant to outside organizations during his tenure at Harvard, including Stanford, Northwestern and Columbia Universities...
...their spiels. With the price of postage rising faster than telephone rates, marketers can reach out and harangue people for less than a third of the cost of direct mail. "While a segment of people complain about telemarketing, it's still supereffective," explains Robert Blattberg, a marketing professor at Northwestern's business school. "You don't need a huge response rate to make these things work. You only need a 1% to 2% success rate for telemarketing to be effective...
Until November of 1988 Portland had no more racist fanatics than any other Northwestern town. But when the East Side White Pride gang killed an Ethiopian student named Mulugeta Seraw and the murder made national headlines, about 200 skinhead newcomers flocked to the city...
...perpetrator is believed to be responsible for 12 previous bombings -- the first in 1978 -- that have killed one person and injured 19. Six of the 12 involved parcels that exploded on college campuses, among them Northwestern and Vanderbilt. The last attack prior to this week, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in February 1987, may have sent the bomber underground after a witness described a man with reddish-blond hair, a thin mustache and ruddy complexion dropping off a burlap bag that later exploded outside a computer company...
...officials, including Carter, have said they believe the bombings are part of a string of 12 similar incidents dating back 15 years. The first device was detonated in 1978, injuring a security guard at Northwestern University...