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Just four days afterShannon Faulknerleft the Citadel to jeers from her male classmates, another woman is planning a bid to enter the exclusive club. "A Citadel degree has a certain cachet in South Carolina," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It provides a very easy entry into certain jobs and there's a huge network, a power core of Citadel men in state society." The woman's identity will remain secret until Wednesday, when attorneys add her name to Faulkner's suit to join the all-male cadet program.Faulkner's lawyerstell Towle that two other young women had expressed interest...
Sure, it's been an unusual year, but The Economist doesn't think we have to consider it any further, because, after all, we're "America's oldest and richest...with more name-recognition and cachet than almost any other American college." The Economist seems so dazzled by our greatness that the University could be at ground-zero in a nuclear attack and still be held high on a pedestal, the mere notion of Harvard vindicated against its reality...
...Italian Republic (Pantheon; 467 pages; $27.50), this unholy alliance had a dramatic payoff. To the embarrassment of police, Mafia gunmen ambushed and killed the notorious, elusive bandit Salvatore Giuliano, who for years had terrorized rural Sicily. By appearing to abet law and order, the Mafia acquired a prestige and cachet that it had never possessed since first surfacing in the early 19th century...
...that, Star Trek has never won much respect. In the realm of long- running entertainment phenoms, Sherlock Holmes has more history; James Bond, more class; Star Wars and Indiana Jones, more cinematic cachet. And while no one sneers at the Baker Street Irregulars, noninitiates consider Trekkies to be pretty odd: Trekkies like Pete Mohney, a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, who leads a double life as captain of his local Starfleet "ship," the Hephaestus NC-2004, and publisher of a 40-page Trekkie newsletter; or Jerry Murphy, a Sugar Grove, Illinois, business manager and father of two, who is commander...
Pollution, like the recent oil spill in Russia, and the threat of global climate change have rudely reminded nations that fossil fuels carry with them heavy costs even when the purchase price is low. In the developing world, alternative forms of energy enjoy increasing cachet as governments wonder how to provide power for billions of people who lack electricity, knowing full / well that cities such as New Delhi, Beijing and Mexico City are choking under blankets of smog. Most important of all: renewables are beginning to earn respect in the marketplace. During the past decade, improvements in technology and manufacturing...