Regents sought extra advice on OMA: More than $100K spent on OMA counseling prior to search
Five months prior to former University President James Duderstadt's resignation in September 1995, the Board of Regents paid attorneys $136,309.32 for advice about conducting future presidential searches that would comply with the state's Open Meetings Act.
China's 'last emperor,' reformer dead at 92
WASHINGTON - Deng Xiaoping, who died yesterday of complications from Parkinson's disease and a lung infection at age 92, led China out of the chaos and isolation of Communist rule under Mao Zedong into a new era marked by rapid economic growth.
'U' experts: Sino-U.S. relations uncertain
University experts say that yesterday's death of former Chinese Communist Party Chair Deng Xiaoping will create new possibilities for the Chinese government during the next year.
"The succession of Deng began occuring several years ago. He has not had impact on the government for the past two years," said political science Prof. Kenneth Lieberthal, a national expert on China. "It is not an issue of impact immediately. It is a situation that will come about in the near future.
Future engineers build bridges on North Campus
Like little children with a toy chest, Engineering students dug into buckets of Legos yesterday in North Campus's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building.
As part of National Engineers Week, the students were determined to construct bridges with the Legos - bridges that wouldn't break under pressure.
Coffee prices climb in local shops
It used to be that with a smile and a few cents, anyone could get a cup of coffee in Ann Arbor.
Not any more.
High Court splits abortion ruling
WASHINGTON - In an atmosphere of increasingly violent abortion protests, the Supreme Court yesterday condemned the pushing, shoving and 'in your face' tactics of demonstrators, ruling that women seeking abortions can be shielded from protesters as they enter a clinic's doors.
Supreme Court issues traffic ruling yesterday
WASHINGTON - Police can order all the passengers, as well as the driver, to get out of the car during a traffic stop, even when they have no reason to suspect danger or wrongdoing, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
On a 7-2 vote, the justices said the need to protect an officer's safety outweighs the privacy rights of innocent passengers.
College GOP pres. impeached
Accusations flew and divided a group at last night's meeting of the University chapter of the College Republicans, which culminated in the impeachment of Nick Kirk as the organization's president.
The impeachment came after the accusation that Kirk forged press identification to gain entrance to the Michigan Republican Convention on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.
MSA questions Rose's purchase
As the student body president, Fiona Rose has a lot to remember.
To stay organized, the Michigan Student Assembly president purchased a $127.94 Franklin planner in August and was reimbursed for the expenditure from MSA's operations account.
Rivers holds town meeting
After victory in what some pundits dubbed as one of the hottest elections in the country, Lynn Rivers took time to meet with her constituents in an informal town meeting yesterday.
Campaign finance reform, research and higher education funding were among the topics Rivers discussed with the audience of about 20 people. Rivers said the 105th Congress has not yet been able to accomplish a great deal.
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Friends hold fundraiser for student killed in plane crash
Friends of Arati Sharangpani, an LSA senior who was killed in the crash of Comair Flight 3272, hope to celebrate the spirit of her life through a show benefiting her memorial fund.
Sharangpani was one of 29 victims killed in the Jan. 9 air disaster. The show, which will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium, is intended to highlight the ideals Sharangpani shared with others.
Detroit papers take offer
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit's daily newspapers accepted unconditional back-to-work offers from six striking union locals yesterday, saying that ended the 19-month strike. But union leaders termed the company's plans to place workers on a preferential hiring list a rejection of their offer.
Army engineer says he leaked classied information to Israelis
DETROIT (AP) - An engineer at an Army post told an FBI agent that for 10 years, he inadvertently gave Israeli officers classified information, including how to fight Patriot missiles.
The statements were in an affidavit for a search warrant filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit. The FBI was granted permission to search the Southfield home of David Tenenbaum, 39, a mechanical engineer in the combat vehicle research center at the Army's Tank Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren.
New evidence may identify McVeigh
DENVER (AP) - Prosecutors yesterday produced a photograph of a bearded Timothy McVeigh and a new height measurement of the Oklahoma City bombing suspect to back up eyewitness descriptions of him.
The developments came in the second day of a pretrial hearing to determine which witnesses will appear at McVeigh's trial next month. McVeigh's attorneys have challenged six prosecution witnesses, saying their descriptions were influenced by intense publicity about the case.
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