Word: wharton
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...self-described economist, philosopher and teacher, Rifkin grew up in Chicago, the son of a plastic-bag manufacturer. It was in the late 1960s that Rifkin -- then a student at the Wharton School of Finance, where he was locally famed as both party animal and class president -- decided to become a professional protester. His conversion to the antiwar movement wasn't triggered by emotionalism or peer pressure. He immersed himself in the history of Viet Nam and emerged convinced that America's leaders were dangerously ignorant about Southeast Asia. Did it strike him as odd that he claimed...
Solidarity's failure, however, could easily have the opposite effect. "Walesa is going to be criticized for certain," predicted Czech-born Zuzana Princova of London's Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates, "yet a lot of people have trust in him and really support him." But if Walesa and Mazowiecki are to keep Poland on its historic new course, they will also need outside help -- from Washington as well as from Moscow...
Despite the danger, Cicippio, now 58, had genuinely enjoyed Beirut since he moved there in 1984. Educated at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he gave up a 25-year banking career in the late 1970s, after the breakup of his first marriage, to work as a shipping manager in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Following a four-year stint as an employee of an oil cartel in London, Cicippio accepted the job at the American University in June 1984. "None of us wanted him to go, but he had made up his mind," said his brother...
Despite Berkoff's strong performance in thebackstroke races, USC sophomore David Whartonearned Swimmer of the Year honors. Wharton was theonly other individual to set an American record inthe meet, finishing first in both the 200 and 400individual medley and third in the 200 butterfly...
...Wharton's like total anarchy," says Joanne B. Ciulla, a Wharton lecturer specializing in ethics, who was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard's B-School. "At Harvard there's much more structure. There's the sense that you all have to get the same things done so that there's equitable teaching. That's tough--really tough...