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...much is crammed into a senior year at Harvard. Applications to graduate school, decisions on a career, official responsibilities in student groups, general examinations, and finally a thesis all accumulate on top of the normal course load...
...Percy Foreman, 64, is probably the biggest, brashest, brightest criminal lawyer in the U.S. The 250-lb. son of a onetime Texas sheriff, Foreman chose brains over brawn as a teen-ager when he landed a contract to load cotton at 25? a bale, then hired laborers to do the job at 8? a bale. At 16, Foreman quit the hamlet of Bold Springs to seek his fortune in Houston; he shined shoes, delivered papers, and hustled through the University of Texas law school. Of his clients, he likes to say mysteriously: "They may not always be right, but they...
...Public Health Service through increased incentives such as higher pay, 2) treble grants to communities that organize coordinated assaults on local health problems, and 3) renovate the nation's hospitals-one-third of which, according to Johnson, "are now in obsolete condition," yet face a 15% patient load increase because of medicare...
...most of the season, Yale was a one-line team, and they were buried deep in the ECAC standings. It was quite a line, with juniors Jack Walsh, Jack Morrison, and Warren Gelman averaging about two goals per game among them, but they were carrying the load alone...
...furious schedule that has filled their last year with 25 TV shots, a tour of Europe, and one-nighters in places like Yale, San Francisco's Cow Palace and Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall.† All three are still single. Though Diana, as lead singer, carries the heaviest load, they divide their earnings evenly. Using last year's take of $250,000 each (it may hit $400,000 this year), they moved their families into three modest duplexes on the same street in Detroit's northwest Buena Vista district. The homes are luxuryless, just spartanly comfortable...