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...Portland, Me. resident was last seen wearing tan pants, a gray tee-shirt, a blue or black jacket and aviator-type glasses...
...Kristi Yamaguchi, 21, a 5-ft. sprite from Fremont, Calif., known for her precise, delicate artistry. Runner-up is Nancy Kerrigan, 22, of Stoneham, Mass., a Kate Hepburn-style beauty whose elegance carries over into her performing style. Third -- but national champion in 1991 -- is Tonya Harding, 22, of Portland, Ore., a bold, natural athlete who pays little attention to nuance, less to music. Tonya gets out there and jumps...
...really has a hard time," says Rosovsky. Increasingly, institutions are divvying up their limited funds into skimpy partial-aid packages rather than full grants -- a practice known as gapping. This leads students to overextend themselves by taking on unadvisably large loans or excessively demanding jobs. Both Reed College in Portland, Ore., and Amherst College in Massachusetts, for example, will ask their financial-aid students to kick in about $500 more than last year, either from loans or campus employment...
That is the object of a bizarre document called the Portland African- American Baseline Essays, which has never been published as a book but, in photocopied form, is radically changing the curriculums of school systems all over the country. Written by an undistinguished group of scholars, these essays on history, social studies, math, language and arts and science are meant to be a charter of Afrocentrist history for young black Americans. They have had little scrutiny in the mainstream press. But they are popular with bureaucrats like Thomas Sobol, the education commissioner in New York State -- people who are scared...
...player the Crimson might not have to deal with is Frame, Dartmouth's leading scorer. Frame, who shot his way into the starting lineup as a freshman, has recently shot himself out of it with a 1-for-14 performance against Portland on Wednesday...