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Last semester Rotenberg and his cohort distributed a pamphlet to everyone on campus. "There's something a bunch of your classmates would like to tell you," read the front cover, continuing inside, "It's not easy being gay at Harvard Business School." The pamphlet acknowledged that "sexual orientation is a topic that makes many people uncomfortable" -- an understatement on a par with original estimates for bailing out the savings and loan industry. Yet Rotenberg says his classmates and colleagues have been almost uniformly positive, both before and after his appearance in FORTUNE. His hot line (not mentioned in FORTUNE...
Deng, purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, was finally returned to power in what Salisbury calls a military coup. One of the most powerful old marshals, Ye Jianying, brought his army colleagues together and decided that when Mao died, they would arrest Jiang and her cohort. Kang died of cancer in December 1975, and Zhou a month later. When Mao finally died at 82 in September 1976, Ye clapped the venomous widow into prison and summoned Deng from his rural exile...
...more are added each month. With some prizes soaring past nine digits (the largest: $118 million in California last April), a few recipients even approach being superrich. But America's pot-of-gold winners are to a surprising degree the opposite of the Me-first cohort of nouveau speculators who bedecked the greedy...
...same tide of aging baby boomers that has generated a wave of post-30 pregnancies has also produced a larger-than-usual cohort that delayed the decision too long: an unprecedented number of infertile couples are in the adoption marketplace. There are an average of four eager U.S. couples for each of the 50,000 domestic-born children placed in new homes each year; some adoption advocates put the ratio as high as 20 to 1. U.S. couples on an adoption-agency waiting list can wait as long as five years for a white newborn...
...woman lay down in a Boston intersection and faked death as her cohort zipped her up inside a plastic body bag. One protester called out, "How many bags left...