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...students accepted in this year's early round, 436 were women--making this the seventh year in a row in which the number of women admitted early has risen...
...balanced, and also that they believe that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates by the end of this year. I expect that sometime next year the Dow will break the 6000 mark. There just aren't any worrying signs of trouble now in the economy." The average has risen more than 30 percent this year in one of the most spectacular runups in Wall Street history. It had broken the 4,000 barrier only last February...
WHAT DO WE KNOW OF the Kennedys? Better to ask: What don't we know? We know, ad infinitum if not ad nauseam, about the blackguard patriarch, the philandering but beloved President and his glamorous wife, their handsome son risen from the ashes of an aimless, if active, life to become a magazine editor. We know of their loves, their losses, their lapses and their favorite dressmakers. Flip through new memoirs by Gore Vidal and Benjamin Bradlee, and there they are again, appearing in vignettes that will be eagerly processed by a curious public...
Decreasing party loyalty from candidates and voters alike will further evaporate the two-party political monopoly. More diversified candidates--fueled by more people entering the world of politics from fields other than law--are replacing career politicians. When such candidates enter the political arena without having risen through the political ranks, they bring with them more varied perspectives, and less party loyalty. The result is an increased willingness to consider third-party options...
...recognize that the pressures on our junior faculty have not decreased over the last decade," Knowles said. "I do recognize that the expectation of departments and disciplines have risen...