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...have notified Pittsburgh and the National Hockey League that we have received a signed offer sheet from Stevens," assistant general manager Mike Milbury said yesterday...
First of all cheating on the type of test we take is simply not that helpful. Smuggling in a cheat sheet or peeking at a neighbor's paper just doesn't help that much on essay questions in the humanities, where you are graded on the ability to quickly string together an argument from a semester's worth of reading and lectures. In many science exams, professors allow you to bring in a page of notes, but I have never found that too helpful. You have to be able to apply the formulas to the problems, a skill that...
...effort to clean up Salomon Brothers' tarnished image, Warren Buffett, the Wall Street investment house's new interim chairman, has announced plans to form an in-house compliance committee, hired an outside accountant and handed down commandments designed to strengthen the firm's integrity, if not its balance sheet...
...fairy tale is heading for a no-no era denouement. In 1976 ex- encyclopedia salesman William Farley bought a California citrus processor with just $25,000 of his own money. Within years, he ruled over a multibillion-dollar empire. Then came Farley's folly: the 1989 leveraged buyout of sheet-and-towel giant West Point-Pepperell, for $1.6 billion. Burdened by debt, he endured the junk-bond collapse, the recession and the gulf war. But last week Farley accepted a "prepackaged" bankruptcy plan that will slash his share of West Point-Pepperell from 95% to 5%, the biggest blow...
...wins journalism awards and dines at the White House, in such a cleanup operation is high. In April, Brokaw sanitized the use of the name of the alleged Palm Beach rape victim in the William Smith case under the guise of reporting on the ethics of a supermarket scandal sheet, which had used the name first. This purified the issue sufficiently for the New York Times, which ran a lurid profile of the woman the next day, violating most of the newspaper's rules about printing unsubstantiated charges from unnamed sources and naming victims in rape cases. Other publications, which...