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Even before Sept. 11, the airline industry was in trouble. The weak economy was cutting sharply into business travel, whose high-margin tickets account for nearly 80% of industry profits. Costs were skyrocketing, pushed by labor contracts negotiated in flush times. And now travelers, worried about security and wary of delays and hassles at airports, are looking for any excuse not to fly. Upshot: airlines have cut flights 20% from pre-Sept. 11 levels, yet planes still flying are at just 65% of capacity, compared with an estimated 73% before the terror attacks...
...market teams thus have an advantage over their small-market cousins, which has proved out in playoff appearances. Of course, money can't explain everything. If the big-city teams ought to dominate, how do you account for Chicago's Cubs and White Sox? Or the Boston Red Sox's karmic futility...
...This may account for why the rhetoric of the Taliban leader took on apocalyptic tones last week that seemed to betray his despair about the fate of his movement and his own dim prospects for survival. From an undisclosed location, Omar broadcast messages predicting his death in battle and naming Mullah Baradar, a former governor in Herat who commanded Taliban troops in Kabul, his successor. Early in the week he gave an interview to the bbc's Pashtu news service in which he predicted "the destruction of America. If Allah's help is with us, this will happen within...
Summers said at the Faculty meeting that the curricular planning exercise will be taken into account in future hiring decisions...
That’s where the “achievement index” comes into play. Developed by Valen E. Johnson, a professor of statistics at Duke University, the achievement index is a system of ranking students that takes into account how each student performs relative to the people in his course, and how the people in his course performed in their other courses. Johnson compares it to the rankings in college sports, which take into account the difficulty of the schedule in addition to the team’s record. The Harvard football team is a great team...