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Leaders in higher education including President Neil L. Rudenstine are now struggling to stave off the so-called whitening of higher education. Rudenstine has committed himself to this movement, but his efforts prove more complex for him than for most...
...economy. Retail sales for April marked their largest decline in 10 months, for example, while orders for durable goods fell 3 percentin March. Politics may also have played into the decision: Greenspan had said that a balanced budget amendment, on which Congress and the President recently agreed, would likely stave off the need for the Fed to meddle with the rates. The central bankers will have a chance to reconsider that strategy when they meet again on July...
...Mike McCurry said. Tshisekedi, an opposition activist whom the president reluctantly appointed just a week ago, was forced into a vehicle and driven away by six soldiers as he arrived to assume the post. A longtime foe of Mobutu, he had been given the post in an effort to stave off Kabila's advancing rebel forces, which already control nearly half of the country. But Tshisekedi's challenges to Mobutu's once unquestionable authority -- ordering a parliament packed with Mobutu's supporters dissolved, annulling the constitution and offering Cabinet posts to representatives of Kabila's army -- proved too much...
...early report from France--where else?--finds more benefits from drinking wine. For reasons that are unclear, enjoying it daily--in moderation--may help stave off ALZHEIMER'S disease...
...Northern lands; the towering presence of her beautiful and world-wise best friend, Jane Singh, fills her dreams with images of willowy, "dusky maidens" welcoming Saskia the Wanderer into distant ports. Carefully balanced between worlds, with the imaginative richness of her inner ocean just managing to stave off the outside world of adolescent rebellion and incipient high-school geekdom, Saskia's mental dialogue with the reader will remind many of us of ourselves at that paradoxically selfabsorbed, doubting and arrogant, callous and tender...