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Johnson, who is Black, said the departmentrefused to rehire him in 1988 after he quit toapply for a post in the MIT police department.Johnson was employed at Harvard for 10 years andsaid Chief Johnson had promised him a post if onebecame available...
Yale will survive Schmidt's absence, but questions will remain about his departure. No one besides Schmidt will know the real reason the administrator quit Yale. But in coming to the decision, the difficult economics of higher education in the 1990s likely crossed his mind...
Congressmen are fleeing Washington. Many career Capitol Hill aides are also depressed and planning to quit. Look for soft real estate values in northern Virginia...
...dole; on the other hand, it allows them to keep their benefits if they marry, and it contains incentives for them to earn outside income and continue their education. Wisconsin's Republican Governor Tommy Thompson has pushed through a program that docks payments to teenage parents who quit school; he has also proposed to pay single mothers an extra $77 a month to marry the fathers of their children. Many of these innovations violate federal rules, but Bush has made it clear that he will grant waivers to encourage the states to take the lead in reform...
...decades at the head of ensembles as popular as -- and often more innovative than -- Glenn Miller's, Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's, after a succession of hits (Begin the Beguine, Frenesi) that sold millions of records around the world, Shaw, then 44, packed up his clarinet and quit the music business...