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...John Shaft. But then I had another thought: the fact that these two men, hopelessly disheveled as they were, had ascended to the leadership of Harvard College and Harvard University was a wonderful testament to the genuine meritocracy of this place. These two men, the grandchildren of immigrants, had risen to the top of the greasy pole without the benefit of grace or style, but merely on the strength of their intellectual acumen...
...Israeli media reports that President Bush was recently surprised to learn that Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas was not, as he had imagined, the aggressive young leader of a new generation risen to challenge Arafat, but instead a 68-year-old PLO veteran who had spent most of his political career by Arafat's side, who still reports back to Arafat despite the U.S.-Israeli boycott of the Palestinian Authority president. The President may also have been somewhat frustrated to discover, in his meeting Tuesday with Arab leaders who back the "roadmap," that Arafat remains the leader of the Palestinians...
...measuring. The core Consumer Price Index (CPI), which the Fed chairman watches, is up only 1.5% (and could turn negative, the Fed warns), but it doesn't include volatile food and energy prices. The cost of services, which includes out-of-pocket expenses that you notice most, has risen nearly twice as much as the core CPI--2.8% in April over the year before. Car insurance rose 9%, consumer health premiums 8%, college tuition 7%. Altogether, services make up about 24% of household spending. Then there's housing, which accounts for 32% of spending. It rose...
...summer of '81. Levan died in 1992, and since then his many disciples in the DJ world have occasionally paid dual tribute to Levan and Ono with their own Ice mixes. Now an album-length collection of 10 of those tributes has deposed Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott and risen to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's club play chart, giving Yoko Ono, at age 70, her long-awaited hit. "Isn't that weird?" she asks giddily...
...history of man can be read as a litany of metropolises risen and fallen. The first major clusters of wealth, such as Babylon, Bactria, Nineveh, Persepolis, Samarkand and Thebes, were mostly located around the Nile, Euphrates and Tigris rivers and along the Silk Road. With the rise of the seafaring Phoenician trading empire, prosperity and power shifted toward the Mediterranean Sea. At different times, this led to the emergence of Alexandria, Athens, Carthage, Constantinople, Rome and Tyre. And in the 15th century, it culminated in the first centers of capitalism: the Italian trading cities of Florence, Genoa, Pisa and Venice...