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Iriye says he will retire at the end of spring semester in anticipation of his 70th birthday in October...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Older Faculty Stay On at Harvard | 2/12/2004 | See Source »

...runs the day-to-day business from his ninth-floor office at the Cheung Kong Center, while his father, on the 70th floor, guides strategy. Some investors wonder if the relatively unknown Li can effectively succeed his father, 75, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $7.8 billion. Still, it is widely assumed that Li--and not his younger brother, telecom tycoon Richard Li--is next in line. Victor avoids the issue but notes how much he's like Dad. "We almost always arrive at similar conclusions," he says. That may be a result of close tutoring. Father and son share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTOR LI, CHEUNG KONG: Can He Follow the $7.8 Billion Man? | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...scores by race, Lohman found something surprising to those outside his field: the gap between white and minority students was smaller on the reasoning test than on the achievement test. Whites did about the same on both exams, but the percentage of blacks who scored reasonably well (above the 70th percentile) was higher on the CogAT tests. Others have replicated such findings by comparing achievement and reasoning tests in earlier grades; one theory as to why minorities often score higher on the latter is that they attend poor schools that leave their potential untapped. "Indeed," writes Lohman in Rethinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inside The New SAT | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

Senior midfielder Katie Westfall had given the Crimson (4-3-4, 1-0-2 Ivy) the lead in the 70th minute after a combination from senior striker Alisa Sato and sophomore Sara Sedgwick...

Author: By Jon Dienstag, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Can’t Protect 1-0 Lead Against Cornell | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...just gonna do 70th-birthday parties. You just have to work out which one's coming up next and get your tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Elvis Costello | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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