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Mills, 41, will take over the young and struggling Charleston Southern University squad, the South Carolina school announced last Friday...
...track star in high school, Sallie Krawcheck ranked among her state's best at the high jump. But she hasn't jumped for anyone since, and her unshakable independence has propelled her career on Wall Street to heights unimaginable to a girl coming of age in Charleston, S.C., in the 1970s. Then, Krawcheck--always an outstanding student--thought mostly of cheerleading and "dating the coolest boy," she acknowledges. "She was in danger of becoming terminally cute," recalls her high school guidance counselor, Nancy Wise, who recognized Krawcheck's potential early and stoked her business ambitions. Today Krawcheck...
...this soft-spoken humility belies a toughness present from the start. Daughter of a lawyer and sister of three more, Krawcheck learned early on to substantiate her assertions--or keep quiet. "It used to get quite interesting around the dinner table," says her father Lenny, who practices law in Charleston. "Politics, relationships--you name it. It was every man for himself and awful tough to make your point." Jokes Sallie: "None of us could get a friend to come over for dinner...
Though the initial 12th-place finish diminished Harvard’s chances of victory in the ‘A’ division, the third-place finish was primarily attributable to Charleston and Tufts simply out-sailing the Crimson team...
...Charleston placed in the top-two five times and never once lower than eighth. While Tufts was less consistent on the water, the Jumbos did win four of the 10 races, propelling the team to a second-place finish, just ahead of the Crimson...