Word: pennsylvania
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Despite the danger, Cicippio, now 58, had genuinely enjoyed Beirut since he moved there in 1984. Educated at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he gave up a 25-year banking career in the late 1970s, after the breakup of his first marriage, to work as a shipping manager in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Following a four-year stint as an employee of an oil cartel in London, Cicippio accepted the job at the American University in June 1984. "None of us wanted him to go, but he had made up his mind," said his brother...
...volunteers who drop in and out as their stamina and patience dictate (no charge, all welcome), the trains cover up to 24 miles between overnight camps, where they circle in classic fashion. Some vehicles are older than the state itself. Some come from as far afield as Texas and Pennsylvania. When the trains pull out each morning, cries of "Wagons ho!" fill the air. "There's no better way to see the scenery than looking between a horse's ears," says Bud Livermore, 67, a retired South Dakota rancher who scouted the route for the western wagon train...
...weeks to come, pro-life groups will go on the offensive in such states as Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, South Carolina, Michigan and, of course, Missouri, where strong grass-roots organizations already exist and the legislatures are larded with sympathetic officials. Pro- lifers will attempt to go well beyond the provisions in the Missouri statute. In some states bills may be introduced that would make a woman seeking an abortion listen to the fetal heartbeat and look at pictures of a fetus at the same level of development as hers...
Drew G. Faust, a University of Pennsylvania expert on the antebellum South, and William E. Gienapp, a University of Wyoming specialist in nineteenth century party politics, said in interviews yesterday that they had not decided whether to accept the Harvard offers...
Proponents argue that people have always gambled and always will -- so governments might as well cut themselves in on the action. Lotteries painlessly raise billions for worthy causes (education in most states, senior citizens' programs in Pennsylvania). Lottery operators love to quote an 1826 remark by Thomas Jefferson that lotteries are a kind of tax "laid on the willing only." Chon Gutierrez, director of the California lottery, goes so far as to assert, "The lottery is not gambling. It's entertainment." And cheap entertainment at that, says Edward Stanek, commissioner of the Iowa lottery, because ticket buyers "can spend...