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Goldin got "here" by working her way through some of the nation's most well-respected institutions. From 1982 until last spring, Goldin held a tenured post at the University of Pennsylvania, and for several years she was the editor of The Journal of Economic History, the premier journal in the field...
...policymakers risk disappointment and worse if they think they can solve the crisis of the moment by getting rid of the scoundrel of the hour. Experts on Iraq have conjured up a number of post-Saddam "succession scenarios" that would be no improvement on the current situation. "There are people waiting in the wings who make Saddam look like an eagle scout by comparison," says a top U.S. intelligence official...
...transfer options open for women, many couples are adopting a your-turn- my-turn strategy. Grace Flores-Hughes, 44, gave up a government job to follow the career of Lieut. General Harley Arnold Hughes, 54; she no sooner settled into an academic post in Omaha than her husband's career relocated them back to Washington. "I knew that one day if I needed something, he would support me," she says. That day came in 1987 when she was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be director of community-relations service at the U.S. Justice Department. Harley Hughes, who faced...
...body of an executed lieutenant colonel on a crane and left it dangling outside Kuwait's municipal headquarters. A placard around the corpse's neck read HE STOLE THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. Beneath the body were piled stolen clothes and electrical goods. According to the Washington Post, the officer may actually have been punished for leading a dissident group in a clash with other Iraqi forces...
...equation of busy-ness with importance may help to explain Americans' queasiness about vacations. The Washington Post reports that two days before Iraq invaded Kuwait, when troops were already massed on the border, someone tried to reach the head of Kuwait's civil defense, only to be told he was on vacation for the next three weeks. Go ahead and laugh. But is that any more absurd than Dan Rather, who was on vacation in France, spending the day of the invasion desperately scouring the Middle East for a place to broadcast from and ultimately settling for London -- rather than...