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Mellon Professor of the Humanities Zeph Stewart will take at least a one-year leave of absence from the Classics Department to "plan and coordinate the center's activities," he said yesterday. A member of the faculty since 1953, Stewart will assume command this summer...
...one-year notes refinance a similar issue from last December. Although the University plans ultimately to sell long-term bonds to cover the projects' financing costs, Financial Vice President Thomas O' Brien said interest rates are too high right...
...organ rejection by partly suppressing the immune system. It is considered safer than earlier drugs used for this purpose because it is less likely to destroy the body's ability to fight infection. Since its first use in the U.S. in 1979 it has revolutionized transplant surgery, raising the one-year survival rate of heart recipients from 65% in the 1970s to 80%. Bailey believed that by focusing on the treatment of newborns, whose immune systems are not yet fully developed, he could further reduce the risks of rejection. Says he: "A newborn is a gracious host...
...major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself last year. He had always signed one-year contracts for the job he considered "the best in baseball." Noted Tommy Lasorda, Alston's successor as manager: "If you couldn't play for Walt, you couldn't play...
...hundreds, of people. The goal is to provide a fresh portrait of the subject that is accurate, revealing and comprehensive. For this week's cover story, Correspondent Anne Constable faced one unusual difficulty: Supreme Court Justices do not talk to the press. So she launched her research by speaking at length to nearly two dozen former Supreme Court clerks, all of whom had finished their one-year stints only last summer. Explains Constable: "The newly graduated clerks are perhaps the most knowledgeable source of current information about the Justices, their relationships and the operation of the court...