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Hewitt, concerned about recent CBS takeover attempts by Ted Turner and a right-wing group called Fairness in Media, says he was only trying to protect the news division from possible meddling by ideologues and corporate raiders. Yet some CBS staffers contend that Hewitt was implicitly taking a swipe at the team of Van Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group, and Edward Joyce, president of CBS News. Though Hewitt denies that Sauter and Joyce were his targets, many CBS employees blame the duo for low morale within the division. At the same time, an internal struggle...
...next few weeks, administrators will place information in campus newsletters to educate students on the subject. The blurbs will include helpful hints on how to politely approach a “piggy-backer”—someone who attempts to enter a building by having a resident swipe them in—and examples of how students have improved campus safety by monitoring those entering their buildings...
...prescription pills and looking for anything to steal to pay for their next fix, have turned this 520-sq.-mi. patch of Appalachian Virginia--a bucolic tangle of wooded mountains, steep hills and rolling pastures dotted with sagging barns and country churches--into a society plagued by pilferers. They swipe guns from unlocked cabinets and push motorcycles out of garages in the dead of night. They swap or sell stolen watches, lawn mowers and sneakers for potent painkillers like OxyContin...
...lazy with door holding. When entering Eliot, I gleefully swipe my card (whee!), and I look to see who might be approaching...
After an Ashley Banfield offering from the point was turned away by Clarkson netminder Kira McDonald and a swipe from Laura Brady similarly rebuffed, the rebound kicked out to Corriero. With the defense bearing down on her, Corriero lifted a backhand into the left side of the goal for her unprecedented 52nd tally...