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...always been her strength. Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, she held top corporate-strategy posts at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri. A native of Madras, India, Nooyi came to the U.S. to attend business school at Yale. (She now sits on the university's board of trustees.) The one gap in her resume is operations--that's an area in which PepsiCo CEO Steve Reinemund excels. Since the pair took over the company's leadership in May 2001, PepsiCo's profits have jumped 24%. Nooyi's next gig will most probably find her running a PepsiCo unit...
Some might even say that Yale is forced to make such social concessions to give itself a competitive advantage that can help close the gap in the admissions game with its arch-rival. Whatever its motivation for so doing, Yale places a priority on supporting its college system, and social life more broadly, and students are better off because of it. Harvard, on the other hand, seems all too aware of just how many quality of life sacrifices students are willing to accept in order to get their Harvard diploma...
...Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom and his wife, Abigail, detail in their new book, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, KIPP schools are among the few bright spots in urban public education today. Roughly 80 percent of them are charter schools, while the rest are very similar “contract” schools...
Reich said Democrats should concentrate on the issues of a growing income gap, education gap and Medicare. “There is a great deep-seated sense of fairness in this country. Democrats have got to go...speak candidly and deeply about fairness,” Reich said...
After a layup by Herzogenburg’s Kim Alexander closed the gap to 31-24 with 1:18 left in the half, junior guard Katie Murphy dished to Peljto for a layup and then added a layup of her own off a nice steal to put the score at 35-24 at the half...