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...School Profs Say Harvard's Case in Sex Discrimination Waning" by Teresa A. Mullin inaccurately reports our conversation. The article's quoting my assessment that the University is unlikely to win the case is wrong. I feel that the University is not certain of a victory because life is uncertain. I have repeatedly stated that the Business School is not a discriminatory, sexist environment, and Barbara Jackson was, on balance, treated like any other candidate in the tenure process. Professor of Business Administration

Author: By Regina E. Herzlinger, | Title: Summer Theatre: Marriage in the Church's Eye | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...used the information to buy stocks on Thursday, then sold them at a profit the following Monday. The broker, who could face fraud charges, reportedly admitted to co-workers that his tips came from Business Week, but claimed he was getting an early copy at a newsstand. Investigators are uncertain whether the other brokers were in on the scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Stock Tips, Hot Off the Presses | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...uncertain pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah Winfrey: Lady with a Calling | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...Yeah, I do," he says, uncertain of what he thinks about this confusing topic. "I mean, I don't like to have limits, but I understand why there are limits. But when I'm being limited, I don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: Josh, Belmont | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...educated Fullerton, some three years her junior, had drifted into his 40s without accomplishing much of anything except a string of ex- lovers, male and female. Yet she listened with a lover's ears to the grand plans of her perpetually promising gentleman: "And when you spoke of your uncertain future, your longing to break away & do the work you really like, didn't you see how my heart broke with the thought that, if I had been younger & prettier, everything might have been different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Triumph, Private Pain THE LETTERS OF EDITH WHARTON Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis; Scribner's; 654 pages; $29.95 | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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