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...Firstborns do more than survive; they thrive. In a recent survey of corporate heads conducted by Vistage, an international organization of ceos, poll takers reported that 43% of the people who occupy the big chair in boardrooms are firstborns, 33% are middle-borns and 23% are last-borns. Eldest siblings are disproportionately represented among surgeons and M.B.A.s too, according to Stanford University psychologist Robert Zajonc. And a recent study found a statistically significant overload of firstborns in what is-or at least ought to be-the country's most august club: the U.S. Congress. "We know that birth order determines...
...contacted over the weekend by a “senior person” at another university who asked him about the search. “The Radcliffe dean position really does command the interest of very senior people,” Bhabha said. Provost Steven E. Hyman will chair the panel of 12 scholars. Several committee members contacted yesterday declined to comment for this story, saying they did not want to discuss the search before the committee convenes for the first time, at a date not yet set. Nancy F. Cott, the Trumbull professor of American history and Pforzheimer director...
...That attitude led to quite a few excesses. Ten years ago, when a malfunctioning electric chair caused a prisoner's leather mask to burst into flames during his execution, Florida's Democratic Attorney General Robert Butterworth joked that the problems with "Old Sparky" - the chair's nickname - were actually a good deterrent to murder. Things didn't improve much after then Governor Jeb Bush and the Republicans took power in Tallahassee in 1999, especially at the Department of Juvenile Justice. In June of 2003, Omar Paisley, 17, an inmate at a juvenile detention center in Miami that was filled...
...calling the situation in North and South Waziristan, the locus of the fighting, a "civil war." On Friday, the eighth anniversary of Musharraf's coup, militants publicly beheaded six alleged criminals. A week before they executed three soldiers. "The situation in Waziristan is deteriorating rapidly," says Zafar Iqbal Cheema, chair of the Defense and Strategic Studies department at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "The military has become so demoralized that forces are surrendering. It's a very grim situation and the government is not paying attention to because their survival is at stake elsewhere...
...Rather than altering their position every step of the way, the deans should just tell everyone what is going on,” Cabot HoCo Co-Chair Ajay G. Kumar ’08 said. “It’s a game of telephone and the backstory gets modified along the way. I shouldn’t have to go through my House master to get information...