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...scrutiny of the school seems to have diminished in the wake of the Republican takeover, but the University itself should pressure the K-School to step up its searches. With millions of dollars pouring in for the school's new building, it is particularly shameful that the school must plead insufficient funds in spurning a student request for a minority recruiter...
...scrutiny of the school seems to have diminished in the wake of the Republican takeover, but the University itself should pressure the K-School to step up its searches. With millions of dollars pouring in for the school's new building, it is particularly shameful that the school must plead insufficient funds in spurning a student request for a minority recruiter...
...been given psychiatric examinations by the defense, the court and the prosecution. The Government, according to a lawyer familiar with the case, decided he was competent to stand trial and was probably sane when he shot Reagan. Hinckley and his lawyers now have 30 days to decide whether to plead not guilty by reason of insanity or to change his plea to guilty. He faces five terms of life imprisonment...
...June, Chapman, a born-again Christian, told the court that God had told him to plead guilty, and so he did, against the advice of his lawyers. At his sentencing last week, he announced a vow of silence and offered, as "my final spoken words," a passage from The Catcher in the Rye: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And, I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What...
...come to visit her brother, Kevin Lynch, 25, a couple of days before he died, "but my mother has to accept this." When families timidly suggest giving up the strike, sons turn their faces away or weakly hold up their palms asking them to stop. If mothers plead, some angry sons will order them out of the room and refuse further visits. Bobby Sands, 27, warned his mother he would never speak to her again if she interfered after he lost consciousness...