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...addition to those informal channels, theonly other information junior professors receiveregarding the likelihood of tenure is oneindeterminate letter at the time of theirpromotion from assistant to associate professor...
...Crimson's accomplishment cannot be overstated. Simply put, it made national history. Even if another 16 seed comes along one day and duplicates the feat, Harvard was still the first. Moreover, the likelihood of another non-scholarship school matching the Crimson's achievement is slim, at best...
While Clinton's decision to sign the waiver reduced the likelihood of criminal prosecution for Loral, such prosecutions have been extremely rare. Teledyne paid a $13 million fine after pleading guilty to shipping cluster-bomb material to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, but that was an exceptional case. Even during the cold war, only professional smugglers suffered harsh criminal penalties. And White House officials insist the waiver did not get Loral entirely off the hook. If no criminal charges are brought, the Commerce Department could still impose stiff penalties. But since Clinton always has his eye on Gore...
...Jewish votes and contributions," says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver. Similar concerns may lie behind Netanyahu's stonewalling. "He's trying to avoid breaking up his coalition, which includes parties that don't want to give up any land at all," says Silver. The likelihood of any progress at next week's peace talks in London now depends on whether Washington is prepared to put the screws on Netanyahu. The chances of that? Well, this is an election year...
...recently, research into behavioral genetics was dominated by psychiatrists and psychologists, who based their most compelling conclusions about the importance of genes on studies of identical twins. For example, psychologist Michael Bailey of Northwestern University famously demonstrated that if one identical twin is gay, there is about a 50% likelihood that the other will be too. Seven years ago, Hamer picked up where the twin studies left off, homing in on specific strips of DNA that appear to influence everything from mood to sexual orientation...