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...financial top, that is. Yale may foster geniuses in French literature, he says, but shining stars in the humanities are more likely to appear later in life, while math and science whiz kids have the opportunity to make it big and flashy before the age of 30. Although both universities are known for offering excellent overall academics, he says, Stanford's traditional strength in the sciences may mean its success is sometimes more apparent, earlier...
...where academic luminaries go, students are sure to follow. Stanford's yield rate--the percentage of admitted students who choose to attend--has been steadily increasing over the past several years. Although this is true of a number of top schools, over the past five years Stanford has consistently--albeit slightly--beaten Yale in matriculation rates, coming in second only to Harvard...
...response to the market's recent dive, he said, "If you wait a few days to publish the article, this may be a non-problem, although the rest of us will have dropped off proportionately...
...standards, without which the unions fear that more manufacturing jobs will depart these shores for China's cheaper labor market. Thus the revival of the coalition between pro-labor Democrats and conservative Republicans that fought NAFTA. Of course Vice President Gore took the lead in facing that one down, although his own electoral concerns (and AFL-CIO endorsement) may keep him far from the front line this time. And even though the administration won on NAFTA, the White House will also remember that Representative Gephardt played a leading role in marshaling the troops to strip President Clinton of his fast...
...father," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Lazaro Gonzalez's lawyers say the law doesn't compel him to physically hand the boy over, and it's now widely assumed that the only way this is going to end is when the feds go in and fetch Elian." Although the government has delayed action pending an Atlanta appeals court ruling - expected Wednesday - on who speaks for Elian, it already has the legal authority to seize him from his Miami relatives and return him to his father. Last Thursday's injunction simply stipulated that the boy not be returned...