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Professors in the humanities are quick to point out that the science concentrations were largely responsible for the recent flood of summa cum laude degrees, leading to stricter policies across all departments for making degree recommendations this year (See story, page...
Pilbeam adds that he hoped that the stricter attention to the percentage of summas would also filter down to the recommendations for magna and cum laude degrees...
...your talk show--a potential silver lining for Kathie Lee Gifford. Much of this happens at work because, to paraphrase Willie Sutton, that's where the opposite sex is. The question is, How much can--or should--an employer try to control it? There has to be a stricter standard in the life-and-death military, but something is out of kilter when two married executives at ABC have an affair and one gets promoted to president of ABC News, while Lieut. Flinn, who had an affair with a civilian she initially didn't know was married, faced dishonorable discharge...
...from recurring," says Freeh. After Waco and Ruby Ridge, he created a new, less paramilitary "crisis-management unit" and completely overhauled the way the bureau handles hostage situations. In the spring of 1996, when the Montana Freemen holed up in their compound near Billings, FBI agents were under far stricter rules of engagement. They could use deadly force only if they or hostages faced "imminent death or serious physical injury." At Billings the FBI also deployed a new unit called the Critical Incident Response Group of behavioral scientists and hostage negotiators. FBI officials insist the CIRG is as skilled...
...about 1980 the group lived in isolation in a camp near Laramie, Wyoming, where the cult's tenets continued to evolve. The recruitment drive from California to Illinois had collected about 100 members, mostly free-associating hippies, college students and would-be mystics. By Wyoming, however, members were under stricter rules, sometimes spending upwards of 10 hours a day with tuning forks held to their ears. One ex-believer recalled, "They were being taught to send their thoughts to other people ... and while they were doing that, they were encouraged to open their minds so that Bo and Peep could...