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...Alma tunnel and led a grim procession of investigators along the 60 ft. of skid marks that end at the fateful 13th post, graphic proof of Paul's attempts to retake control of the Mercedes in its final seconds. The group stopped often, checking charts, trying to pin down the truth of what happened. There have been too many stories, some rash, some without substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Princess Diana: DRUNK AND DRUGGED | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Instead of trekking Quadward, students can pull up the "Registrar Online" homepage on their computers, enter personal identification numbers (PIN) whihc will be issued by the Registrar's office and view their grades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Registrar Will Provide Online Grade Access | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

Instead of trekking Quadward, students can pull up the "Registrar Online" homepage on their computers, enter personal identification numbers (PIN) which will be issued by the Registrar's office and view their grades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Registrar Will Provide Online Grade Access | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...this fray comes America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible (Simon & Schuster; $32.50) by noted Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom and his scholar wife Abigail. The couple are the latest in a string of former liberals come round to denounce affirmative action. But unlike more polemical authors, the Thernstroms pin their arguments to seven years of research, modeling their approach on Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 benchmark racial survey, An American Dilemma. Their prose is cool, not overheated, and their 704-page book is stuffed with tables, charts and graphs tracking black progress over the past 60 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THROWING THE BOOK AT RACE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Benjamin Wynne, 20, underwent two of the most time-honored rites of passage at Louisiana State University last week. He received a pledge pin from the fraternity that voted him into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinker's mouth. Next came a communal bender at Murphy's bar, a frat hangout a few hundred yards from L.S.U. There, the libation of choice was "Three Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE BINGE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

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