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...perfect 800s on his College Board entrance tests merely compounds the gravity of this sin in the gnome's considered opinion. He dances past the offender, arms flapping, and plants the lance. "Eastie, Eastie," he rasps, in a voice that is part James Cagney, part Peter Lorre, part Bethlehem, Pa., "didja get someone else to take your College Boards for ya? Didja?" Eastwick stands transfixed, while his tormentor teeters (Could this be?) on the edge of tears. Then Peter J. (Pete) Carril, all 5 ft. 6 1/2 in. of him, winks and permits himself a tiny, sly smile. Eastwick will...
...pledge period, the Sphinxmen study and are tested on Alpha history. With such illustrious members as Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Jesse Owens, football hall of famers Gene Upshaw and Art Shell, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Rep. William Gray III (D--Pa.), Assistant Professor of Neurology and Harvard Foundation director Allen Counter and Senior Admissions Officer David Evans, AOA is a rich and diverse organization. As any Alpha man will tell you, Alpha history is Black history...
...executive has ever underestimated the power of sex to sell a show. But NBC's new sitcom Grand is a clanging symphony of suggestiveness. Set in the fictional town of Grand, Pa. -- whose chief industry, a piano factory, has fallen on hard times -- the series introduces a clutch of socially diverse - characters and stirs vigorously. Atop the class structure in this small-town version of Upstairs, Downstairs is the piano magnate Harris Weldon (John Randolph), attended by a faithful but acerbic manservant (John Neville). At the bottom is the chain-smoking Janice Pasetti (Pamela Reed), who lives in a trailer...
...leave law is becoming a more common one, especially in urban firms. "Compared with five years ago, there are a significantly greater number of lawyers today who are not practicing law for a living," says Ward Bower, a partner at the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil in Ardmore, Pa. Experts estimate that nearly 40,000 lawyers a year are leaving the profession, almost as many people as are entering law school annually. A Maryland State Bar Association survey last December found that 35% of the lawyers who responded were not sure they wished to continue practicing...
House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) said Democrats had not decided on their next move. House Democratic Whip Bill Gray (D-Pa.) said he did not think Democrats would attempt to add similar abortion language again to the same bill...