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...students urged onlookers to select Quayle from the "menu of choices" in this election year, and closed by belting out the Pledge of Allegiance...
While most Harvard students take jobs in existing businesses--selling clothing and waiting tables--a select group of undergraduates run their own restaurants...
...Soviets ultimately agreed to an exchange that is remarkably free of constraints: the visiting students have no chaperones; they live in ordinary dorms with their American peers, earn transferable grades and select courses on their own. In past cultural exchanges, authorities in Moscow wanted the U.S. Government to guarantee the return of visiting Soviet citizens (a request that was routinely denied). "There was none of that talk in these negotiations," says Ray Benson, a Middlebury professor and former embassy attache in Moscow, who headed the negotiations. Tuition, room and board, and a monthly living allowance of $150 are paid...
...descended on U.S. computer users this year. In the past nine months, an estimated 250,000 computers, from the smallest laptop machines to the most powerful workstations, have been hit with similar contagions. Nobody knows how far the rogue programs have spread, and the exact mechanism by which they select their innocent victims -- resting harmlessly in some computers and striking destructively in others -- is still a mystery...
Masters, who serve in loco parents for house residents, hold five-year renewable appointments from President Bok. They sponsor house events, select tutors and supervise administration of the houses...