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...total of 22 schools--including Harvard--are now under scrutiny, and some of them rank among the nation's most elite...
Many programs court only the academically gifted, but there are exceptions. Last month Connecticut College launched a program aimed at tenth-graders who rank in the top 30% of their class but fall short...
Though he achieved the rank of minister-counselor, the department's third highest career level, Bloch is said to have been disappointed by his failure to become a full ambassador. He boasted to friends that he virtually ran the Vienna embassy under former Ambassador Helene von Damm, a Reagan appointee he regarded with scorn. Bloch got on the wrong side of Von Damm's successor, Ronald Lauder, who sent him packing. Colleagues praise Bloch's work in Washington, though some describe him as dull ("A boring little man," says one). He has been placed on leave and his security passes...
Even in a European marketplace aswarm with mergers and takeovers in anticipation of the lowering of national barriers in 1992, the B.A.T deal would be worth two-thirds the total value of the 898 European mergers and acquisitions carried out in the first half of this year. It would rank second only to last year's $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco by the LBO firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
...officers and stewards. We must legislate regular membership meetings where important issues can be debated openly and fairly. We must institute a system of recall and accountability for leadership positions and decisions. And most of all, we must start turning to each other and our own selves--ordinary rank-and-file members--for ideas, inspiration and ultimate authority. We are the union. Let's start acting like it. Tamsey K. Andrews Member, HUCTW Widener Library