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Chicago Reporter Thomas McCarroll is waiting to file till the last possible moment: "April 15 at 11:58 p.m.," he vows. "I want to keep my money as long as possible." Reporter-Researcher JoAnn Lum, who assisted Senior Writer Otto Friedrich with the cover story, will also delay filing till deadline time: "I hate it," she says, "so I always procrastinate." Another reporter-researcher who worked on the cover story was Sidney Urquhart; she and her husband, with two jobs and six children between them, find the services of an accountant helpful, as does New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin...
Seventy-five percent of the drive is expected to come from under 1 percent of its donors, say leaders of the Harvard Campaign, which has $250 million already in the till with nearly two years to go. In fact, officials say, reaching the $350 million goal will involve a total of at least 50 gifts of $1 million or more...
...generation that did not live through the horrors of the war will take over. Despite the constraints of the Soviet system, these leaders might well be interested in improving the lot of their people--if only out of necessity. Growing labor unrest and dissidence within the Soviet Union have till now been successfully held in check, but history suggests the country will not stagnate forever. As Goldman puts...
This has some fairly horrifying implications?till death do us part, for one?but it is so close to character that it is too bad that Whitaker, at 42 an acknowledged star among royal-watchers, did not really say it. The dapper Whitaker has concentrated on the royal family for 14 years?in the process, he says contentedly, traveling around the world several times and moving at increasingly fatter salaries from the Daily Mail to the Express to the Sun to the Star, and finally to the Mirror. He likes the royals. "They all mean a great deal...
...such improvement takes time, effort and of course budget, and officials note that the best results in the past have come from long-term aids like better teacher training. An ever present temptation is to get rid of the problem on the surface by "holding back" students till they have attained competency for the grade level. New York City ran into just this problem in 1980 when it created an ironclad regulation for the city's overcrowded, almost completely ineffectual seventh grades: Students could not go on to eighth until they had achieved certain flat scores on the city "idiot...