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Whitacre had also been dogged lately by suspicions that he may have lied about his education. When Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, elected Whitacre a trustee in May, the school said he held a master's degree in business from Northwestern University's prestigious Kellogg School. In fact, Whitacre earned his M.B.A. last year through mail-order courses from Kensington University in Glendale, California. A Millikin spokesman said the information about Kellogg came from "Whitacre's office" at ADM headquarters in Decatur; that left open the possibility that the company, rather than Whitacre, had pumped up his resume...
...effort geared up, the Army was eventually cajoled into establishing one flight-training school for black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. Hundreds of applications flooded in. The blacks who entered the program were a stellar group, with degrees from such top universities as Howard and Northwestern. Their military-aptitude-test scores were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman...
Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Hamilton was professor of pathology at the Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University. During her tenure at Northwestern, Hamilton established herself as a research pathologist and bacteriologist...
...strapped under the seat of O'Grady's F-16 contained a first-aid kit, a few flares, some radio batteries and a 9-mm pistol, among other items. In his vest, O'Grady also had an "evasion chart" -- a waterproof map with pointers on how to survive in northwestern Bosnia, including cues for edible plants such as dandelion, licorice root and nettle. His most important asset was a 28-oz. PRC-112, a survival radio, barely larger than a Walkman, that can operate for as long as seven hours on a single battery and can broadcast a locating beep...
This year the team went a disappointing 1-4 in California--losing to Northwestern, San Diego, UCLA and Fresno State. The Crimson's only win during the week-long trip was 5-4 decision over UC-Santa Barbara, which had been ranked above it in the national polls...