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...directory, a takeoff on the traditional "plum book" of political patronage, has a serious purpose: to stress "the consequences of failure to perform effectively" in sub-Cabinet Government offices. Explains former State Department spokesman John Trattner, who wrote the book: "A prune is a plum with experience...
Whoever the unnamed athlete was, the N.C.A.A. says that among other things he received a $183 airline ticket from Kansas representatives, was paid $297.12 for work he did not perform and was lent $350 for a family problem -- all relatively minor breaches of the recruiting rules, perhaps, but ones that the N.C.A.A. pointedly made an issue of on principle. "When I left Kansas," said Brown last week, "I was led to believe that this was no big deal. I now realize that every time you are investigated by the N.C.A.A., it's a big deal...
Another significant factor is that many doctors perform caesareans at the first signs of fetal distress to protect themselves from malpractice suits. Moreover, caesareans demand less time for physicians in the delivery room. "It's a lot easier for a doctor to schedule a woman for caesarean and come in at 8 in the morning and be done by 8:30," says Mortimer Rosen, director of obstetrics and gynecology at New York's Presbyterian Hospital...
Following tonight's Sanders appearance, The Capitol Steps will perform at a black-tie benefit for the Cambridge Arts Council at the Charles Hotel, said Annabelle Hebert, the council's executive director. She said the two-show evening represents the council's biggest fundraiser event in its 14-year history...
...most recently Cage has been composing his Norton lectures. He says that he has incorporated the principles of I Ching into a computer program that simulates the "binary probability function" produced by tossing the sticks. Computers can perform the random operations and interpret the results much faster than humans, Cage says. "It is the most ancient and very modern mechanism and is in relation to all numbers," he says...