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Last week the Kazakhstan inventory of uranium was half a ton lighter as officials in Washington and the Kazakh capital of Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) announced that the team, after six weeks of feverish activity, had successfully moved the material to the Oak Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator...
...called Lauren--son of fashion maven Ralph Lauren--to investigate how he was going to transform the undergraduate journal he created at his alma mater, Duke University, into a national glossy. Swing first attracted my attention at the June Presidential Gala held at the New York Sheraton Hotel. At the Democratic fund-raiser, 20-something women were fawning over a certain not-so-tall guy in a loose-fitting navy pinstripe suit. He was David, they said, and he was starting a magazine for Generation X--American 20-somethings whom he (and the executives marketing Swing) knew to have tremendous...
...Brooks' last grab for a slab of bacon proved too much for his sated constituency. After he managed to get $10 million for the Jack Brooks Criminal Justice Center at Brooks' alma mater Lamar College slipped into the crime bill, voters saw pork for the bad financial bargain it is -- two dollars in federal taxes for every one that might come back to the district in the form of pork. Stockman, who had been trounced by Brooks in 1992, saw his chance and tried again. Some Republicans in Texas ignored him as a wild man. (Stockman unfurled posters that said...
Whipple is known throughout the college ranks as an outstanding offensive stategist. He returned to his alma mater this season after a six-year stint at the University of New Haven...
Paul Siemens '98 of Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., sued his alma mater, Spring Valley High School, for using a ranking system that left him out of the valedictory spot. Siemens' lawyer compared the school's ranking system, which double-counts the first semester of senior year, to the injustices suffered by Black slaves and disenfranchised women...