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...East St. Louis, where his father earned a modest blue-collar wage as an engineer in a chemical plant. Carol came from Staten Island, from two generations of longshoremen. Neither Bob nor Carol went to college. But back then, lack of a degree was no impediment to swift upward mobility, and for Bob a union labor job was the quickest ticket into the booming American middle class...
...petition, submitted late last month, brought a swift University response. Officials agreed to meet with students in a discussion and response forum within a day after receiving the petition. Dean of the Law School Russell K. Osgood refused to grant refunds, saying. "The renovation work is taking longer that expected, and the plan is, the hope is, it will be completed in mid-December...
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...International Olympic Committee should be applauded for its swift action in dealing with Ben Johnson and others who have violated the rules on steroids. Hopefully, the NFL, major league baseball, the NBA and the NCAA will deal with subsequent incidents in similar fashion...
...become a ten-minute expedition that involves 92 steps down and 88 steps up, and leaves one feeling fit enough to enter the 10,000-meter run. Yet always there is an accommodating yin to balance the rigorous yang: Seoul's user-friendly subway is a miracle of swift efficiency...