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This summer, according to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, the College will institute a pilot program of electronic ID-card access to dormitory and house entryways. The College hopes the switch will eliminate the problems of propped open entryway doors and key-copying...
NEXT YEAR, she will be at the Royal Conservatory of Art in London on a Rotary scholarship. She's excited to study art full time, but the switch to a less social atmosphere will be strange, she says...
...writer of Ghost. A former hippie who studied Buddhism in India, Rubin admits the seminal idea for the movie came from Hamlet's vapory father. "The film's message is: Life turns on a dime, so tell people you love them," says Rubin. Director Blake Edwards, whose current film, Switch, tells the story of a male chauvinist pig who dies and returns to earth as a woman, believes spirit-filled movies are popular because "the kids are searching for something. Filmmakers are merely attempting to tap it." Producer Robert Lawrence recently paid $2 million for a proposed script called Manhattan...
...instead of getting their pension checks directly from their companies. Having had no say in their companies' decisions to replace their pensions with insurance-company annuities, these retirees are learning that their former employers shucked all legal responsibility for continued payments to them in the process. Worse, the same switch cut them off from the government's Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Instead, annuity holders are covered by a hodgepodge of state insurance regulations that in some cases offer no protection at all for the $50 billion worth of insurance annuities that cover retirees and workers...
...sure that those hopes will be dashed unless Quayle becomes so much of a liability that he threatens Bush's chances to win a second term. G.O.P. strategists calculate that dumping him would pose more political risks than keeping him on the ticket. The biggest danger of a switch would be damage to Bush's credibility, which, despite his victory in the gulf war, remains strained by his flip-flops on abortion, gun control and especially taxes. "The President has been taking heat on Quayle for so long that if he dropped him now, the political damage would...