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Possible action could range from a finding of no wrongdoing to a request that the Justice Department file suit against Harvard for civil rights violations. Wood said the Education Department would announce its decision by next month...
QUITE simply, it's THE question for college students. It's basic smalltalk, a standard request that often forms the basis for an entire conversation...
...luncheon chaired by a Denver developer with the comment, "It's a cute letter, but without substance." Heath snapped back that Brown's remarks were "incredibly patronizing. Modern men and women in this country today are well past using language like 'cute' with a woman's serious request on a matter of grave importance...
...report from the Resolution Trust Corporation is expected this month, and it figures to stoke congressional ardor to find scapegoats for the S&L mess. The report will examine transactions during 1988, when private investors, at the government's request, scooped up troubled S&Ls and then received whopping federal subsidies for doing so. In 94 cases, entrepreneurs like Ronald ! Perelman, owner of Revlon, and Texas billionaire Robert Bass wound up reaping, on average, $78 for each dollar they invested. Some who received this windfall have argued that their intervention was cheaper than allowing the bankrupt S& Ls to pile...
...most remarkable aspect of Brack's assignment has been the Pentagon's request for his measurements. Reason: the Defense Department wants to make sure it has a safety suit in his size in case Iraq uses chemical weapons. "You can't keep worrying about it, but the possibility of a gas attack is always in the back of your mind," says Brack, who took this week's cover picture. The subject, however, rarely comes up in Brack's conversations with the soldiers; instead, the troops keep asking him what the people back home think about the crisis...