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Harvard is unlikely to eliminate stops at the B-School and K-School because these faculties help to pay the shuttle's annual budget. But in the interest of efficiency and making life at the Quad more pleasant, the College should shell out the extra few thousand bucks it would take each year. After all, who wants to live in wonderful suites in the suburbs if you can't get to them...
...pouring rain did not deter several thousand Spanish students from taking to the streets of Madrid last week. Their purpose: to protest attempts by the Socialist government to tighten university admissions and academic standards. The march, one of the latest in a series of nationwide demonstrations, resulted from a deepening concern among students that the door may be closing on the accessibility of a university degree, the traditional path to a good job and financial security. "People study now who probably would have found work before," says High Schooler Raul Cabezas. "But because there is no work, what else...
Control Data got into trouble by developing "corpocracy," or corporate bloat, at a relatively early age. William Norris, a former Sperry Rand general manager who started the company in 1957, had managed by the early 1960s -- with a staff of only a few thousand employees -- to take the industry lead in building high-speed computers for scientists and engineers. But as the company grew and prospered during the 1970s, the founder's interests began to wander toward wide-ranging and public-spirited ventures that diverted money and managerial attention. The company built factories in low-income regions like Appalachia, tried...
Most of the rebellion's drama centered on the Channel 7 TV compound in suburban Manila, where some 160 mutinous soldiers and 100 civilians huddled inside the walls while a thousand government troops waited nervously outside. Since friendships cut across the lines, the two sides opted to trade radio messages instead of shots. "Mommy, take care of my children," sobbed a female mutineer. Came the government's response, from the five-year-old daughter of Rebel Leader Colonel Oscar Canlas: "Daddy, come home. Mommy has a stomachache...
...match that of smearing one's face with sunscreen goo, joining ten other hearty mates and smashing over the sea in multimillion-dollar pursuit of an ugly, and near worthless, silver jug. Yachtsmen often complain that ocean racing is like standing under an ice-cold shower tearing up thousand-dollar bills. Until recently, Dennis Conner, 44, skipper and mastermind of the smoke-blue Stars & Stripes, might have agreed...