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More than two years after it began, the Justice Department's investigation into the Pentagon bribery scandal, code-named Ill Wind, may finally be poised to blow in some major indictments. Charles Gardner, a former top executive of Unisys Corp., pleaded guilty last week to bribing former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Melvyn Paisley in return for Paisley's help in winning at least $194 million in contracts on the Aegis electronic-warfare system...
...students and philanthropic dollars. Gone are the days when black-college presidents enjoyed a near monopoly on black-college hopefuls. Today they are more inclined to run their schools like a business, placing corporate brass on their boards and going head to head with Brown, Duke and other top schools for the most promising black youths...
Such worries seem far away to Angela Addison, a black senior at the selective Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, a high school where African Americans are in the minority. Addison could go on to almost any of the nation's top-ranked colleges, but she is convinced that Hampton will provide the right environment. "I want to go someplace different," she explains. "I want to go to a prestigious black college." So, it seems, do many others...
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What a difference a year makes. Quincy House is on the decline, according to a Crimson poll. Last year the house was picked first by 13.5 percent of the Class of '91. This year a paltry 2.5 percent of freshmen put the river house on the top of their housing forms...