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Yale also got a thumbs-down from Susan N. Dekle '89, whose twin sister will attend the New Haven school. "People think it's funny that we're going to rival schools," says the Savannah, Ga. native. "We visited the Harvard campus, and I fell in love with Cambridge and Boston--Harvard's atmosphere is better than Yale's atmosphere...
egregious local crimes and ask viewers and readers for information that might lead to arrests. Participants are offered small rewards, guaranteed anonymity and are under no obligation to testify. One such program in Savannah features rewards of up to $2,500 and police awards banquets at which some 400 citizens a year are honored for their aid. "Over half the people who call in aren't interested in the reward," says Savannah Police Chief David Gellatly. "They just want the s.o.b. to go to jail...
...proposes to cut all Government subsidies for Amtrak. The move would save $717 million next year and, according to Dole, about $8 billion over the next decade. It would also probably bring an end to passenger trains on such long-haul routes as Chicago- San Francisco and New York-Savannah...
...already has granted requests for restrictions on such imports as motorcycles, cars and steel. Nor is it just older industries that are protesting. "Most hightech companies have been very hard hit," says C. Norman Winningstad, chairman of Floating Point Systems, an Oregon computer company. Allen Paulson, the chairman of Savannah's Gulfstream Aerospace, is blunt about the strong dollar's impact: "Somebody has to put an end to this insanity...
...Pulitzer Prize last week, is a graduate of Columbia and the University of California at Berkeley who worked for the Associated Press, the Baltimore Sun and the Atlanta Constitution. In 1978 he returned to his home town to battle what he saw as the sluggish daily Savannah News and Press. The Gazette broke a succession of stories, not always to the delight of readers: the paper was nearly put out of business by advertising and circulation losses after it violated the wishes of a prominent local family and reported in 1980 that a missing son had in fact been kidnaped...