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Peterson said the results of the study, "The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee," help to refute the claims of Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Richard J. Herrnstein in The Bell Curve that intelligence is determined in part by race...
...last contest of her 13-year rowing career, Lindsay H. Burns '87 and her partner Teresa Z. Bell rowed a "perfect race" Sunday to claim a silver medal in women's lightweight double sculls at the Olympic Games in Atlanta...
...shielded from lots of grimness I would later find. And there were moments of atmospheric appreciation at other times while I was an undergraduate: Lowell House's small courtyard, accessorized with snow and red mittens, is perhaps my favorite visual image, along with the sight of the blue bell tower from the river (not a wholly ocular confrontation, I confess--this sight was always accompanied by some narration like "Hey, I know somebody who lives there...
...ride looks as though it's over. Instead of coining money, companies that have come to market lately have discovered that the easy pickings are gone. An increasing number of new issues have fallen at the opening bell, and the market won't let them get up. With high-tech powerhouses such as Motorola and Hewlett-Packard reporting earnings problems, smaller companies of all sorts have had to delay long-planned sales. "This is no market for people with ulcers," says Steven Samblis, who heads an investment firm in Longwood, Florida...
...growing demand for foreign cars, toys and games, creating the largest trade imbalance in eight years. TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports that the trend toward a vast trade disparity with China bodes poorly for the U.S. economy: "This shift from Japan to China is a warning, an alarm bell. The potential that China will be a source of cheap exports and lost American jobs far surpasses that potential from Japan." Japan's economy has increasingly matured, Simons says, and is not nearly the economic threat that China is becoming, given its large population of 1.2 billion people. "China...