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...with proof that he had actually been in the merchant marine. Lawrence had given himself a war record so moving that his voice cracked when he told about being thrown into the icy Arctic Ocean when his ship was torpedoed. It turned out, however, that he was at Wilbur Wright Junior College in Chicago at the time. If the question of wealthy contributors' buying burial plots in Arlington had not arisen, he and his secret could very well have rested in peace...
...Harvard, this expansion has translated into much higher interest in the on-campus recruiting program, the Office of Career Services (OCS) Career Forum and other ways of directly targeting Harvard students, according to OCS Director Bill Wright-Swadel. Two years ago, 215 firms recruited on campus. Last year it was 360 and this year the numbers are even stronger...
...turned a lot of people away from the Career Forum--we just didn't have space," Wright-Swadel said...
Meantime, however, a couple of cheers for Coppola, who satisfies at least one ruling critical principle: any movie that offers successful employment to Mickey Rourke and Teresa Wright cannot be all bad. He's the only shyster in town who's willing to take a chance on young Rudy; she's his landlady who is nowhere near as ditsy as she looks. And like the rest of a constantly bestartling supporting cast, led by Jon Voight and Danny DeVito as deliciously disparate masters of legal sleaze, they're terrific. Another good rule is not to take Grisham novels as seriously...
...University announced yesterday that the institute will be headed by play-wright and actress Anna Deavere Smith, currently a professor of drama at Stanford University. Smith gained national acclaim earlier this decade with "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992," her one-person performances that explored attitudes toward riots in New York and Los Angeles...