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Since his return from last month's Carribean vaction, President Neil L. Rudenstine has been getting back into his work in preparation for a late February return, University officials said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community BRIEFS | 2/14/1995 | See Source »

...watched television over vaction, you couldn't miss the commercials for the Olympic telecast package. The 800 number (1-800-OLYMPIC) was flashed across the screen in an all-out media blitz to sell this cable package before the end of February...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: A New Year's Resolution | 1/10/1992 | See Source »

THANK GOD FOOTBALL SEASON is only a few weeks away. The sooner the baseball players and owners put themselves and the fans out of their misery the better it will be for all. In fact, both sides will have an extra-long winter vaction to prepare for a new season of contractual negotiations...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: No Joy in Mudville | 8/6/1985 | See Source »

...best things in Pieces of the Frame are outside this comfortable sphere--an article about a lucrative quarterhorse race in New Mexico and one about the decay of Atlantic City. In both McPhee the educated family man on vaction fades away; he is not present at all in the racing article, and he takes on an unusual, ghostly Monopoly-playing persona in Atlantic City. The removal helps, because it gets rid of the chummy, comfortable tone that dominates the rest of the book. McPhee's writing works best when he is confronting the unfamiliar and making an effort to convey...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Reassuring World | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

Brown was suspended from the Penn team last fall for skipping practices; this spring he had a shoulder injury and didn't go on the team's vacation tour. He was scheduled to return to action just after vaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful Penn to Challenge Netmen, But Crimson Depth Should Prevail | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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