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...addition, Time's list includes 39-year-old Bill Gates, a Harvard dropout and America's richest...
...also represents an enormous risk. Hartford, one of the poorest cities in Connecticut, has been spending roughly $9,000 per student annually, well above the national average of $5,900, and yet has one of the highest dropout rates and the lowest test scores in the state. Fewer than half the city's ninth- graders graduate four years later; 95% of fourth-graders need remedial help. Acting superintendent Eddie Davis, whose two children attend Hartford schools, is blunt about the crisis. "Our performance is down, our costs are up," he says. "Our 2,000-odd teachers make on average...
...house. "An important problem that could take you three weeks to solve properly, he'll want it done in two days. It's very difficult for a quant who thinks of himself as a Ph.D. from a top-notch school and comes to Wall Street, and a high school dropout screams at him and calls him an idiot." His colleague, an engineer, agrees: "Many times, what your boss is saying is just hilarious. It's wrong, you know; mathematically it makes no sense. You can't even say, 'Look, you don't know what you're talking about...
...enough in the age of the information superhighway. As a result, many of Gates' new rivals on this front are monitoring reports of his latest ventures, wondering if Microsoft will invade their territory. Last week, in a stunning series of moves, the tousled, 38-year-old Harvard dropout treated them to a waking nightmare of activity...
Early speculation was that President Clinton would name Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, a surface-warfare officer, as CNO. Unlike all 24 CNOs who came before, Boorda, a high school dropout, never attended the Naval Academy. As the Navy personnel chief from 1988 to 1991, he drafted a plan that allowed the Navy, unlike other services, to shrink dramatically without firing personnel. But an Administration official said Saturday that Clinton might prefer to keep Boorda in his sensitive Naples post, where he has been planning the possible NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs. If so, the next CNO is likely...