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Penn's fortunes depend on whatever firepower Bob Seddon can manage to squeeze out of a short line of returnees and a gaggle of talented but untried freshmen. Prominent among the latter group is Keith Omsburg, who scored 45 goals his last high school season. Striker Bruce Becker is another possible key, with Kevin Kinnevy the leading returning scorer. Graduate Petrowski and Eric Omsberg--last year's leading scorers--were pressure players par excellence, scoring most of their goals in the last five or ten minutes of a game so the Quakers will need to find a comparable pair...
...following is an excerpt from an as yet unpublished novel by Ms. Becker. Although the author uses fictional names, she describes the 90-page work, entitles Rules, as "very autobiographical...
Rules, as Carol Cohen Becker, remembers vividly, were on occasion broken. She spent a year out of the classroom as a result of a particular amorous encounter that did not go over well at Fay House. "It was ludicrous," Becker says, "We were seen as directionless people along for the ride, but we were still hemmed in at every opportunity...
...Columbia in 1979 and now works as a marketing manager at American Express. "M.B.A. schools don't necessarily teach you anything you can use," agrees Marcia Berss, 29, who graduated from Chicago last June to a job at more than $30,000 with the investment firm of A.G. Becker. "It's just that companies assume that if you have an M.B.A. you can think, conceptualize and pick up material quickly. The M.B.A. really is the ticket to paradise...
...about $70. Says Wall Street Analyst Lee Isgur of Paine, Webber: "Probably 98% of the people who are exposed to videodisc and a videotape recorder for the first time will buy the tape recorder." Adds an industry watcher, Anthony Hoffman of the New York brokerage firm of A.G. Becker: "The question is not which videodisc system will win but whether the videodisc will sell...