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...their junior year, the Harvard campus prepared to welcome Walt Kelly, the creator of the popular comic strip “Pogo,” which was set in a world populated by animal characters but incorporated some political themes...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Silent Generation’ Rallies for ‘Pogo’ | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

Listen to Walt Whitman on baseball. "Baseball is our game: the American game: I connect it with our national character," he said in 1888. "We are some ways a dyspeptic, nervous set: anything which will repair such losses may be regarded as a blessing to the race." Nice, isn't it? Just as compelling, in its own way, is the simple fact that Walt Whitman wrote something about baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homers of The Homer | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

Under the new rules, it will be easier for federal credit unions to expand from serving workers at a single company to serving others in the same industry. Walt Disney's credit union, which had been restricted to Disney employees, their families and affiliated firms, may now apply to court any worker in the entertainment business in Los Angeles; Orlando, Fla.; or anywhere else that the credit union has a branch. Credit unions chartered to serve bundles of companies may expand to a new company simply by installing an ATM; previously a full-service branch was required. And the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Big Little Lenders | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

There has, of course, always been attrition in high schools, but since MCAS was introduced, the numbers have risen at a disturbing rate. According to data collected and analyzed by Walt Haney at Boston College, in the years before MCAS was introduced in 1997, only six to seven percent of students turned up missing between grades nine and ten. In 2001, the rate at which students were missing between grades nine and ten had nearly doubled to 12.4 percent. The rate at which Latinos were missing from grade ten had also nearly doubled, from 17 percent to 29 percent...

Author: By Eleanor R. Duckworth and David U. Fox, S | Title: MCAS Perpetuates Inequality | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...Walt C. Meissner, interim dean of the College of Fine Arts, described Daverio as the school’s “most respected faculty member” who was “always thoughtful, always kind...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Body Identified as B.U. Prof., Schumann Scholar | 4/16/2003 | See Source »

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