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...Strikers have received support from faculty members at NYU and around the globe since NYU issued its theats in the Nov. 28 letter. In early December, 10 professors from the United States, the United Kingdom and France signed a letter to NYU President John Sexton opposing the punishments. They posted the letter online, and it has garnered over 6,000 signatures...
...days that Harvard’s non-denominational church holds memorial services, Richard D. Campbell, The Memorial Church’s sexton, climbs up narrow and steep staircases, ascends a thin metal ladder, and smashes a half-ton clapper into Harvard’s two-ton bell, high up in the church tower. Down below, three dorms full of freshman students cover their ears and try to fall back asleep...
Before the bell was automated, a rope extended from the clapper up in the bell down into the basement of the building. Instead of climbing up to the bell, the sexton would pull with all his might on the rope and would often be carried up to the ceiling with the weight of the bell clapper...
...after the market leader at the time, Paradise Poker. "We weren't ready for the launch when we did launch" in August 2000, Bhargava recalls, shuddering at the site's initial reliability problems. The breakthrough came a year later, when the company hired a well-known poker player, Mike Sexton. He came up with a gimmick that got gamblers' attention: a $1 million first-place prize for an all-comers tournament...
Many market watchers believe the rally will keep rolling in 1986. Says Mason Sexton, president of Wall Street's Harmonic Research: "You don't stand in the way of this bull if you value your life." He thinks the Dow will probably pierce 1600 before declining grudgingly. David Bostian, president of Manhattan's Bostian Research Associates, is optimistic about the longterm outlook for stocks but warns that the bulls may stumble in the next few months. Says he: "We're way overdue for a steep correction. An investor should not be doing aggressive new buying...