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...professor of English and Art History at Northwestern University has been named the next librarian of Houghton Library, Larson Librarian of Harvard College Y. T. Feng announced last week...

Author: By Danielle C. Cunningham, | Title: Illinois Professor Named New Houghton Librarian | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

Worse violence was reported Saturday in Xian and Changsha. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said rioters in Xian, a popular tourist city and capital of northwestern China's Shaanxi province, forced their way into the provincial government compound and burned buildings and vehicles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students Plan to Boycott Classes | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Walsh said that he came up with the idea of asking Harvard for a loan at a recent League of Cities and Towns meeting, where he heard of a similar arrangement that had been set up between Northwestern University and Evanston, Illinois. He said that he did not think that there was any precedent for Harvard loaning money to Cambridge...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Walsh Mulls Asking Harvard for Loan | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

While Felix Gallardo was being seized in the western state of Jalisco, Mexican army troops were used to swoop down on his hometown of Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, and arrested every police officer on the force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mexican Drug Pipeline Leader Arrested | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

...senior at Marion High School in rural South Carolina three years ago, Reggie was an All-State center. More than a dozen universities salivated over his 22-points-a-game average. They paid little mind to his scant 2.0 grade-point average. It was Bob Battisti, coach of Northwestern Oklahoma State University, who persuaded Reggie to attend his school. What won him over, said Reggie, was Battisti's promise that a tutor would be available to help him through the difficult academic times ahead. "I knew I wasn't no A student," explains Reggie. For the Ford family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Sport...Foul! | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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