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SOME miscalculating psychiatrists performed a series of tests in the 1960s to discover which hue of color relieved feelings of fear and anxiety. After the study found that students would feel "more comfortable" if their exam books were a soft, pale blue, universities and high schools began to buy the now infamous "blue books...
...Tower's just-say-no theatrics pale in comparison with the price paid by Louis Sullivan, who was approved last week as Secretary of Health and Human Services. To avoid possible confirmation complications, Sullivan renounced all claims to nearly $500,000 in severance pay and deferred compensation legally owed him by the Morehouse School of Medicine. Even Senate Democrats wondered aloud if Sullivan's excessive concern with appearances did not overstep the bounds of financial prudence. Meanwhile, George Bush's ethics commission solemnly debated whether a top Government official should be entitled to royalties if he composed a hit song...
Lewis defended the legitimacy of investors--including universities like Harvard--who use LBOs, saying even educational institutions should be allowed to "use the free market." But he added that "South Africa is beyond pale" because of its policy of apartheid...
...life has been spent as an outsider, an alien among local populations. He was born in Bombay in 1947, two months before the British pulled out of India; his parents were well-to-do Kashmiri Muslims and admirers of English customs and manners. Young Salman's religion and pale skin made him something of an anomaly in his native city...
...meter run: Mark Gomes, Northeastern, 2:28.22. 3000-meter run: George Grant, Boston College, 8:19.25. 4-by-440 relay: Boston University 3:20.25. 4-by-880 relay: Northeastern, 7:52.27. Distance medley relay: Boston College, 10:11.36. High jump: Ken Moody, Boston College, 7-ft., 0-in. Pale vault: Bill Cranmer, Boston University, 14-ft., 0-in. Shot put: Bob Kuras, Northeastern, 49-ft., 6-in. Triple jump: Ken Moody, Boston College, 47-ft., 8 3/4-in...