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Meeting fellow classmates posed the biggest challenge and, in retrospect, the best opportunity of any Orientation Week experience. It was a thrilling mixture of nervousness and excitement to meet scores of new people in nine days. ("Where from? " "Phoenix. " "Oh, I've been through Arizona before. " "What dorm? " "Hollis. " "Really? Do you know this guy Ray lives in Stoughton? " "What prospective major? " "Biochem. " "Sure! I took some physics in high school! ") Only weeks afterward did I realize that most of the people with whom I had the typical conversation would slowly drift out of my life, though even...
...PHOENIX: A small minority of state voters wish Gov. Fife Symington hadn't announced his resignation yesterday, the same day he was convicted of lying to obtain millions in loans for a now-busted real estate empire. "Some people feel his mistakes as a businessman should be overlooked because he really was turning around this state," says TIME Arizona reporter Laura Laughlin. "The irony is that he had no business success ? he was broke, as we all found out later ? but he wasn't a bad governor...
Seniors today are undermined by admirable traits. Says Bruce Gebhardt, who heads the FBI office in Phoenix, Ariz.: "They grew up in a more polite age, and they can't hang up the phone." Or slam a door in a con artist's face. Many are trusting to a fault: they cannot believe that well-dressed, well-spoken, solicitous young men can be ripping them...
Thus Evelyn Anderson, 82, a resident of the mammoth Sun City retirement community outside Phoenix, paid an astonishing $10,562 last year to a repairman who fixed some sprinklers and, while at it, wangled a loan with a phony sob story. "I felt sorry for him, going through a divorce and all that," says Anderson...
...bars in Las Vegas where they are known to hang out." Their shops are a kind of floating network of operations that start up, close and reopen on an instant's notice. When active, they run at a true boiler-room pace. One operation busted by federal agents in Phoenix last year had been logging 3,000 calls a day on just four phone lines...