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Suppose that Harvard's environmental brass learn that Cambridge's drinking water has been contaminated with levels of carcinogens exceeding the maximum limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...still angrier reaction was gathering within the Times itself. At an emotional meeting in the paper's Manhattan headquarters -- which was simultaneously piped to its 50-person Washington bureau -- 300 staffers hissed, booed and hooted their displeasure before some of the Times's top brass. Many complained that by disclosing the alleged victim's personal history, the Times profile seemed implicitly to give substance to the notion that some rape victims are asking for trouble. While defending their decision, Times editors promised to produce a balancing profile of Smith that would also look into his sexual history. To many, that...
...Ducey and Andrew Dieterich, as manic Jet Action, have good onstage rapport and cool haircuts. But their voices are not strong enough to push through the thumping percussion and brass in numbers like "Jet Song" and "Officer Krupke." And Rouse is a merely adequate singer and actor. It is hard to imagine Maria falling in love with someone so tame...
...Chief of Staff. Top Pentagon officials contend that the general was offered -- and rejected -- an appointment as Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. The general turned down the NATO job, they assume, largely because he realized that it has become less important in the post-cold war era. Some top brass consider Schwarzkopf too mercurial for the bureaucratic Army job and aren't shedding many tears over his decision to retire. Could the lucrative private-sector offers that Schwarzkopf has received, along with a possible honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, have anything at all to do with the sniping...
...could be on a brass plaque near the trading floor: on Wednesday, April 17, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 3000 for the first time in history. But what does the long-anticipated bench mark really mean? Statistically, the Dow's performance was a thing of wonder. The index first closed at more than 1000 on Nov. 14, 1972, took more than 14 years to close above 2000, then raced to last week's record-breaking 3004.46 close in little more than four years, barely missing a beat even during the crippling crash in October 1987. The milestone demonstrates...