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...program, which features host Pat Sajak and letter-turner and author, Vanna White, is coming to Cambridge March 17 to recruit a Harvard team to compete in the special tournament this April...
...optimistic appraisal winds down an important Government battle against academic segregation. As a result of a 1969 lawsuit by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the states were forced to submit plans to increase black enrollment and recruit more minority faculty at white institutions, and to upgrade facilities at traditionally black colleges. Otherwise, the states would face a cutoff of federal funds. Last week's ruling means that the four passing states -- Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia -- are now free of such orders...
According to the study, a number of schools seem to be less in the business of education than that of processing federal loan money. Some were found to recruit students from unemployment and welfare offices, waive them through token entrance exams and then sign them up for courses whose costs often just happen to equal the maximum available federally guaranteed loans. In many cases, the study found, students do not even realize they are signing loan applications. Trade schools were also found to lie to students about their job-placement rates and make false claims about the qualifications of their...
...paid, but I disagreed with the firm's management on fundamentals." The departing stars made an 11 a.m. appointment with Buchanan in his 43rd-floor Manhattan office, where they cordially delivered their bombshell. Afterward, they scurried across the street to their lawyers' office to begin working the telephone to recruit an initial 30 employees, many of them from First Boston. Meanwhile, Buchanan promptly named a new pair of rising stars to take over the investment-banking department, James Maher, 38, and Richard Bott, 40. Says Buchanan: "Of course, it's disruptive to lose talented people. But Maher is as solid...
...just as dreamy as Lyubov (Natasha Parry), the estate's spendthrift owner, whom he constantly upbraids for her impracticality. She ignores the impending auction of her home because any available means to "save" it would change and therefore destroy it. When Lopakhin cannot recruit her to his scheme, he plunges ahead, basing his gamble less on business acumen than on a burbling belief in the benefits of universal home ownership...