Word: shermans
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...There was a pause, and then he offered a story he thought might help frame the answer. During a recent history class, another teacher was suddenly interrupted by a student, a white Southerner, who looked up with a puzzled frown and asked, "Tell me again, which side was Sherman...
Combining studies with horsemanship was the idea of Sherman Thacher, a Yale law graduate who accompanied his ailing brother West and started the school in 1889. "There's something about the outside of a horse," he maintained, "that's good for the inside of a boy." Though it began as a school for boys who carried six-guns, read Kipling and mostly went on to Yale, Thacher has evolved into a modern, co-ed institution whose students enroll at colleges all over the country. Of this year's 62 seniors, 28 are headed for Ivy League schools...
...KNOWS WHAT SHERMAN SAID. Announcing his bid for re-election to the Senate, New Jersey's Bill Bradley said he "can't think of anything" that would keep him from serving a six-year term. Does this mean he absolutely, positively won't run for President in 1992? Dollar Bill has amassed $9 million for a Senate race that even a New York Knick could not lose. With such a handy war chest, his demurral sounds a shade less convincing than William Tecumseh Sherman's "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." Says a Bradley...
...study, which was to involve 1,244 patients over four years, found that the drugs could cut that risk so dramatically, by 80%, that research was halted after just two years so that the control group could also be treated. "We were shocked," admits principal investigator Dr. David Sherman, a neurologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio...
...Sherman continued the cases against the two men without a finding. Under the arrangement, the men will have no criminal record if they obey the law during the next two years...