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Many undergraduates hope this year's exam will be relatively uneventful. Last year a riot disturbed MCAT test takers at Boston University. During the most different part of the exam a hand began playing outside the test building. The noise increased and eventually a riot broke out and police came...
...year-old, Gino Bova, has just been convicted of assault, riot, violation of civil rights and manslaughter; the jury opted for just about everything except the most serious initial charge: murder. Bova will be sentenced to two weeks, and of his five indicated friends, one is still at large...
...coming back into the family." In all, Gardner has spent a dozen years in the California system, first as a student earning his M.A. in political science and doctorate in higher education at Berkeley, then as a skilled, tactful administrator. As Santa Barbara's vice chancellor during the riot-torn late '60s and early '70s, he worked effectively as liaison between the university administration, the Governor, the students and local police...
...Satellite Age of Television has arrived. With it has come a riot of options for the home viewer and a daunting challenge for the three commercial networks. Since the late 1940s, the networks have held a virtual monopoly on the viewer's prime time. Now that hammer lock may be breaking. In the next few years ABC, CBS and NBC will be vying-with one another and with some increasingly confident adversaries-for the lion's share of $16.7 billion and more in annual advertising revenue...
Brisbon's eleven months on death row have been quiet, compared with his Stateville years, when he took part in 15 attacks on inmates and guards, instigated at least one prison riot, trashed a courtroom during a trial and hit a warden with a broom handle. "I'm no bad dude," he says, "just an antisocial individual." The third of 13 children, Brisbon thinks that his upbringing by a strict black Muslim father made him different: "I was taught to be a racist and not like whites. As I grew up, I decided I didn't like...