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Consequently, black schools have had to address one of their oldest financial weaknesses: small and infrequent alumni donations. In November, when Bill and Camille Cosby made a $20 million gift to Spelman College, the event received widespread publicity; yet modest donations have been the norm. That shows signs of changing, however. During the past fiscal year, alumni support at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute topped $1 million for the first time, aided by three gifts of $125,000 or more...
...interesting to consider: in an age in which we stress mass transit as the best alternative to environmentally destructive car exhaust, there are very few safeguards against widespread transportation paralysis...
...difficult to extract general rules of conduct from the Tower inferno because so many of the facts remain in dispute. Certainly America cannot afford a Defense Secretary with an untreated drinking problem. The issue is how closely this description fits Tower. There are also legitimate concerns raised by the widespread, but not unequivocally documented, tales of Tower's predatory behavior toward women. If true, the allegations of sexual high jinks seem to reflect a pattern of reckless and perhaps unbalanced behavior that should disqualify Tower for such a sensitive post...
...together. As a federally mandated 30-day cooling-off period ticked down to the strike deadline, the mediators called on President Bush to establish an emergency board to examine the dispute, a move that would ! have delayed the strike an additional 60 days. The mediators pointed out the potential widespread impact of the strike, since the AFL-CIO has threatened to disrupt rail, bus and airline transportation across the U.S. in support of the I.A.M...
SOCIOLOGIST Norbert Lechner has noted that revolutions in Latin America have not occurred in countries with the worst histories of human rights abuses; nor have they occurred in the poorest. Instead popular revolutions have succeeded with widespread support behind a class-unifying cause, namely, independence from a government controlled economically, and to a large extent politically, by the United States...