Word: tulsa
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...Tulsa, Okla., university that bears his name has called Roberts home from a California retirement - under the most excruciating of circumstances. On Wednesday, the head regent at Oral Roberts University announced that the school is an astonishing $52.5 million in debt. This news arrived just three weeks after the revelation of a wrongful termination suit filed against the school by three former professors who claim that they were fired after providing the school's Board of Regents with a report detailing moral and ethical lapses by Oral's son Richard, who had inherited the school's presidency from his father...
...Harvard men’s tennis doubles duo of senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov reached the quarterfinals of the prestigious Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championship at the University of Tulsa on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week, advancing two rounds past top-flight opponents in the 32-team, single-elimination tournament. The 38th-ranked pair, which usually plays at No. 1 doubles for the Crimson, earned a spot in the tournament by winning the ITA National Summer Championships in early August. In Kumar and Ermakov’s first match, they faced No. 12 Blake...
...TULSA, OKLA...
Like the Greek owners of many a roadside diner, Indian immigrants have become curators of a nice slice of Americana. In Tulsa, Okla., Jack Patel has lovingly refurbished the neon cactus in front of his Desert Hills Motel, and in Amarillo, Texas, Dipak and Sangita Patel decorated their Route 66 properties with rose gardens. The so-called Patel-motel phenomenon began in the 1970s when immigrants from Gujarat, India--where Patel is a common surname--started applying their business acumen to the U.S. motel market...
...Fuller, TULSA, OKLA...