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Last year's seniors were the first since 1928 to post four consecutive .500-or-better seasons, and established a new benchmark against which future teams will be judged, with program-high 58 wins in their careers. The class of 1999 brought talent and respectability to a Harvard basketball program that was a perennial non-contender in the Ivy League...
...judgment is a victory for consumers and a benchmark of judicial efficiency...
...Citadel, which has been the unwilling focus of discussions about gender and the law throughout the decade, stands to be the defendant in another benchmark sex-discrimination case. On Tuesday, a federal judge said the South Carolina military academy could stand trial for failing to prevent the hazing of a female cadet who dropped out in 1997. Under federal mandate, the academy grudgingly admitted its first female student in 1995, who left after just six days, complaining of being ostracized by male cadets. Four more women enrolled the next year. Two, Jeanie Mentavlos and Kim Messer, dropped out within...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataThat didn?t stop the bond market, which has been smelling inflation all week, from running the yield on Treasury's benchmark 30-year issue to a new two-year high of 6.36 percent at one point. (When no one wants a bond because expected inflation would eat into its long-term value, its yield ?- the payoff for putting your money in it ?- goes up in response; 6.36 is about equivalent to abject begging.) But even that spike was showing signs of flattening as a correction of the correction set in. None of this changes...
Meyer blamed the University's money managers outside HMC for much of the University's failure to meet its overall benchmarks. In particular, investments in emerging markets fared even worse, falling 17 points short of their benchmark...