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Another church-affiliated institution, Phillips University in Enid, Okla. (enrollment: 960), was approached last spring by Kyoto Institute of Technology, which offered $24 million for the entire school. Phillips' president, Robert Peck, refused. "Colleges are not bought and sold," he says. "We're not Quaker Oats." But he was under intense pressure to accept the offer from Enid's town fathers, who in March 1988 paid $14.3 million to keep the campus afloat, and now charge the university rent. As a compromise, Peck let Kyoto underwrite a summer program for up to 50 Japanese students...
...Rother assigned a partner during the nocturnal exercises? Why did almost two days pass before Rother was reported missing? Was the required after-actions roll call performed promptly? How could Rother's fellow Marines possibly have left him behind? "Accountability for your Marines," says corps spokesman Lieut. Colonel Fred Peck, "is something that's drummed into you from Day One." In the case of the Rother tragedy, it may not have been drummed in quite hard enough...
...Smith 3 25 8.3 14 0 Tony Molinari 3 14 4.7 14 0 Greg Gicewicz 1 46 46.0 46 0 Chris Rezendes 1 20 20.0 20 0 David Weiss 1 14 14.0 14 0 Cory Thabit 1 3 3.0 3 0 Henry Olson 1 0 0.0 0 0 Craig Peck 1 0 0.0 0 0 Rick McIntire 1 0 0.0 0 0 Bob Frame 1 0 0.0 0 0 Total...
...Smith 3 25 8.3 14 0 Tony Molinari 3 14 4.7 14 0 Greg Gicewicz 1 46 46.0 46 0 Chris Rezendes 1 20 20.0 20 0 David Weiss 1 14 14.0 14 0 Cory Thabit 1 3 3.0 3 0 Henry Olson 1 0 0.0 0 0 Craig Peck 1 0 0.0 0 0 Rick McIntire 1 0 0.0 0 0 Bob Frame 1 0 0.0 0 0 Total...
...only one known to make a complete meal out of sweets. Gail Beck and Barbara Peck periodically order desserts as main courses in New York City's Oyster Bar & Restaurant in Grand Central Station, which lays out a whole table of alluring confections to tempt its mostly seafood-eating customers. "We wear sunglasses when we do that," says Peck, who wouldn't want to run into her diet doctor. "And walk in backward," adds Beck...