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...thing that has always been an integralpart of the divestment struggle is disruption,"said Francis, pointing to last Friday's rally atMIT in which activists pushed back police barriersand occupied several elevators at Sloan BusinessSchool in an attempt to influence the MITCorporation...
...That still leaves room for states and school districts to determine how material is taught. Besides, local control has hardly proved to be a miracle drug for improving educational levels. "Local school districts don't have incentives to work hard," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "I'm not worried about too much authority. I worry about too little...
Poretz and fellow marketing executive Barry Sinrod have published The First Really Important Survey of American Habits (Price Stern Sloan, $4.95), a really important book for people who want to know what percentage of Americans rolls the toilet paper over the spool (68%) or what portion actually eats the fortune cookie (79%). Habits sold out immediately and is sprinting through its second printing toward a third. "It's a silly, funny, not-to-be-taken- seriousl y book," says Sinrod, a funny, not-to-be-taken-seriously fellow. He and Poretz mailed out questionnaires to a cross section...
Discussion included input from both sides of the issue, along with a little slander. "I am amazed at how well we're talking because we're even considering other people's ideas," Jacqueline H. Sloan '90 said to those assembled...
Dragomirescu dropped a tough, 7-5, 6-3 loss to Sloan, the number-one player in the East, while Niki Rival fell in straight sets to Stephanie Heidmann...