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Partly in an effort to alleviate the pressure of the IL paper chase, the Review adopted a new system to take effect next year whereby writing performance will also account for 30 percent of the score in the grades track of the competition...
...least three years. According to some Pittsburgh insiders, Gulfs board could meet at any time to discuss possible bids. The asking price could be as high as $80 a share, or $13.2 billion. The firm considered most likely to make that offer was Arco, on whose behalf Chase Manhattan bank was assembling a $12 billion line of credit from as many as 70 lenders to help finance any takeover...
...expert in Mayan Archaeology, Stuart has been a Junior Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's research library and collection in Washington, D.C., since he graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School last spring...
Joining a police stakeout in the neighborhood, Tomasello spotted Stander riding a bicycle. After a short chase, the cornered fugitive raised his arms and shouted, "I give up!" Then he seized Patrolman Michael Von Stetina's shotgun and pointed it at the officer. Von Stetina killed Stander with three pistol shots. Even South Africa's Minister of Justice seemed saddened by the demise of his erstwhile nemesis, sending condolences to Stander's family...
Even before graduating last year from Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School in Maryland, he had published several scholarly papers on the subject. At the opposite end of the age spectrum is Paul Kristeller, 78, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. Ever since he ran out of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1980, Kristeller has been working without assistance on a six-volume listing of Renaissance manuscripts. MacArthur's $300,000 grant, he says, will "improve my chance of continuing and possibly completing this project before it is too late...