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According to the contacts, the arrangement was that Ghorbanifar would help bring the hostages home just in time to ensure Premier Jacques Chirac's victory in the French presidential election last month. Then, after Chirac won, Ghorbanifar would receive the backing he needed to regain his status as a world-class businessman. But Chirac was defeated in the election, and Ghorbanifar once more found himself out in the cold...
...high-powered athletic department, top-flight business, law and education schools and a respectable, if not quite superlative, humanities program, and you get major headaches for recruiters at rival institutions. Moans a Yale University admissions officer: "Stanford's got everything -- great climate, great physical plant, terrific extracurriculars and, increasingly, world-class academics." No less impressed, Cornell University President Frank Rhodes declares, "Stanford is not simply a great national institution, but one of the world's great institutions." That collegial admiration was reflected last October in a U.S. News & World Report survey in which university presidents were asked to choose...
...early going yesterday, it was like competing in the National Hockey League playoffs. It was like being one of 64 teams in the NCAA basketball tournament. It was like being in a swarm of world-class runners in it Boston Marathon...
...being in a swarm of world-class runners in the Boston Marathon...
...larger world is beginning to recognize Predock's gifts. Last year he received an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects, and he is busy now on six large-scale public commissions, four of them the result of world-class competitions. "Almost all my new work is outside New Mexico," Predock says. "I fly so much now, I scale my drawings for airplane tray tables...