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Senior Danny Manning, the NCAA Player of the Year, ended his brilliant career with a 31-point, 18-rebound and five-steal performance. He sunk his last two points at the foul line to to give the Jayhawks a four-point lead with five seconds left in the game...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Kansas Downs Sooners, Captures NCAA Crown | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...street. It was rainin', as a matter of fact. Not a warm night." Several ( days later Holly was still wandering around with her dying baby, being sent from hotel to hotel. "The place the shunt went in, his wound had gotten bad," she tells Kozol. "It was sunk in and you could see his skull. His eyes was sinkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Fair RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...second priority is curriculum, with the teachers to make it work. Maria Tostado, principal of Los Angeles' Garfield High, which twelve years ago had sunk to the brink of losing its accreditation, helps maintain the place as a scholar factory by mixing rules with demanding classes: "We phased out the bonehead courses and put in more advanced, challenging courses." Garfield now - boasts 15 advanced-placement teachers in subjects such as calculus and physics. This year 370 students are taking the advanced-placement exams for college credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Tough | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

With $2.7 billion in assets, including $2.1 billion sunk into Seabrook, Public Service is the fourth-largest U.S. company ever to file under Chapter 11 and the first major investorowned utility to seek bankruptcy protection since the Depression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seabrook Plant Files for Bankruptcy | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

...room went gray; I blinked, and it was black. The notes gathered and transformed into the familiar overture. The curtain hung heavy. And then, just as the little girl behind me asked her mother, "Mommy, is it starting yet?" the curtain lifted. Large flakes of snow sunk to the stage where a chestnut seller, the epitome of a Victorian Christmas, was hawking his wares. Families and children paraded across the stage into the wings. The lights did not twinkle gold against soft blue-gray; the stage was just a stage, and all the dancers were players on it. The tree...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Visions of Sugarplums | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

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