Word: penns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years after taking a leave of absence from Harvard, Christopher D. Thorpe of Newville, Penn., works two jobs...
After three years at a public high school in Carlisle, Penn., Thorpe transferred to private Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., with the aim of gaining admission to Harvard...
...asked a group of college upperclassmen to comment on a full-page newspaper ad signed by 113 college presidents. The ad features a huge bottle of "Binge Beer" and warns parents that binge drinking on campus has reached dangerous proportions. The awareness campaign, spearheaded by Graham Spanier, president of Penn State, is backed up by a study of binge drinking released by Harvard's School of Public Health, in which 43% of college students were identified as binge drinkers. That means they drank five or more beers or drinks (four for women) at least once in the two-week period...
...brutal competition in sports equipment won't go away soon--but some brands will. "There's only room for so many," observes Eliasch, who recently bought Penn Racquet Sports from yet another conglomerate, GenCorp. Head is planning an IPO to finance some additional acquisitions. Eliasch is a scratch golfer, and golf brands are struggling. Could he be teeing something...
...Penn and Columbia. Penn beat the Crimson in the fall, while Columbia toppled Harvard last spring...