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...Radcliffe lightweight and heavyweight crews face dramatically different contests Sunday at the Eastern Sprints on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn...
...weeks, the Black and white head for Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn, for the Eastern Sprints. The heavies will confront the most talented crews including the top-ranked Badgers from Wisconsin, whom they don't race during the regular season...
Critics charge that today's euphoria in the junk-bond market could be shattered by even one major default. Says Preston Martin, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board: "The market has not been tested by some significant negative surprises, which inevitably will come at some point." A default would probably cause no substantial damage to pension funds and other large, sophisticated investors, which generally keep only a small part of their portfolio in such certificates. But federal regulators are concerned about the increasing amount of junk-bond investing by banks and by savings and loans. Says Norman Raiden, chief...
...burglarly occurred between 11 am and 2 p.m. while the rooms' residents were eating lunch or attending classes, said Preston W. Brooks '86, who had a television set and a watch stolen...
...conflict resolution. Lawmakers occasionally settled things at ten paces, until William Graves of Kentucky killed Jonathan Cilley of Maine in 1839, prompting Congress to pass an antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office by his delighted constituents. The following year...