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...long-range result of the pirating might not be healthy for academe. As universities, like professional-sports owners, become caught up in bidding for a few known stars, they may stint on finding creative ways to build a team. Cornell's Palmer worries about developing a two-tier system of gold-plated prima donnas and underpaid working stiffs. Furthermore, says Mario T. Garcia, chairman of Chicano studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, "one campus gains at the expense of another." This is what disturbs N.Y.U.'s Rice, as he ponders the consequences of too much raiding...
...decided that Eton was no longer worthy of his time. He bought himself a car and headed for Oxford, where although not enrolled as a student, he learned about chemin de fer and girls. When the subject of a career eventually came up, Jimmy served a brief stint in the Royal Artillery. He later went to Paris and joined his older brother Teddy in a tiny pharmaceutical business...
...years at City College of New York, he joined the Army as a second lieutenant in 1958. Throughout his career he has shuttled easily between military outposts and Washington's corridors of power: he won the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for service in Viet Nam, did a stint at OMB, commanded an infantry battalion in Korea, served as a Pentagon military assistant in both the Carter and Reagan administrations...
Pepper kicked his way up from an F-level youth club to the highest amateur ranks, the A level. He also put in a brief stint in California during the sixth and seventh grade...
...weeks, when the play's stint on the mainstage is over, the crew will return to life as normal. The producers and directors can return to their theses and Cibula can lay off the coffee until his next production...