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...great game," Wulf says. "But I am going with Florida. It will come down to coaching, and Florida's Steve Spurrier is simply the best coach in college ball." Northwestern, a perennial loser and gridiron embarassment, has been resurrected and finds itself going to the Rose Bowl (against USC) ranked number three in the nation. "Northwestern is one of the best sports stories of the year," says Wulf. "They have shown that a school can have a winning football team and not sacrifice good academics. And they're comeback from so many dismal seasons has been...
Some saw a lack of originality in the outfit. "He sort of looked like a rip-off of USC's [Trojan] mascot," said Mark R. Ragley...
TEODORA MARIN, 21, ARRIVED LAST week at the sprawling County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles in no mood to ponder the fine points of municipal finance. Earlier in the day, she had discovered several soft lumps on the neck of her son Jesus. Jesus had been born at County-USC, premature and sickly; the doctors had told Teodora, a recent Mexican immigrant, that she must bring him back if unusual symptoms developed. Back to County-USC, that is: without money or insurance, none of the area's private clinics will see her. As a nurse inspected...
...apprehension is justified. County-USC, one of the busiest hospitals in the U.S., may fall victim to emergency budget cutting that has its root causes in California in the 1970s but foreshadows grim national choices in the '90s. The dire prognosis for County-USC was delivered on Monday by L.A. County chief administrative officer Sally Reed. Saying that she wanted to "put reality on table," Reed announced that the county risked insolvency unless it could make up a $1.2 billion budget shortfall within a year. She suggested a raft of drastic measures: a 20% cut in services, the elimination...
...credit (essentially, insurance against default) from a group of Swiss, German and U.S. banks, the county soothed enough investors to sell $1.3 billion in short-term bonds at a favorable rate. The Board of Supervisors agreed on $267 million in cuts, but put off a decision on County-USC until next month. Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors will ask Governor Pete Wilson for relief from some costly unfunded mandates, as well as asking the state legislature for permission to levy a county tax on alcoholic drinks...