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...President Richard Nixon fired him as Interior Secretary in 1970, Walter Hickel has coveted the Alaska governorship he gave up to go to Washington. He has tried everything short of a coup d'etat to reclaim it -- Republican primaries, write-in campaigns, even lawsuits. Last week, at 71, Hickel found yet another way to pursue his goal: he became the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fringe group that wants the state to secede from the U.S. Hickel named as his running mate state senator Jack Coghill, 65, who defected from the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket...
Like many other states striving for fairness in funding rich and poor school districts, Texas has found no quick fix. After the state supreme court last year affirmed a 1987 district court ruling that the existing system was unconstitutional, Governor Bill Clements and state lawmakers wrestled with the issue through four rancorous special sessions. They finally adopted a formula for bolstering less affluent districts with additional state funds. Last week District Court Judge F. Scott McCown pitched out that plan. Ruling in a suit by the poor school districts that filed the original action, McCown concluded, "The rich districts...
...McCown found that the new plan, putting an extra $528 million from sales taxes into school financing, was insufficient. Moreover, he said, the plan's way of allotting the funds was unfair and failed to achieve the structural overhaul that the state supreme court had ordered. McCown gave the state until September next year to get it right...
Karel Liem, Dunster House master, said he suspected the theft was an "inside job." He said that police found no signs of forced entry into the grill, and that both the grill lock and the cabinet padlock were undamaged...
...glad that [the Education Department review was closed] for Harvard's sake for two reasons: first, generally they found that Harvard was not guilty of discrimination or guilty of discrimination to a greater extent than any other college, and second, because of the question of whether Harvard would lose any federal grants," said Hoang Quan Vu '92, president of the Vietnamese Student Association...