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...status quo in the utility business is tough to shake. "A lot of people don't want to be the first to get their toes in the water," observes William Speicher, a Zurn executive who sits on Otisca's board. Concurs Ted Rosiak, a project manager with Duke Fluor Daniels: "Utilities tend to be very conservative and try not to take a lot of risks." In fact, risk aversion in the utility business is not just a tendency, it has been a way of life. Since 1935 most of the power suppliers in the U.S. had operated a gridwork...
Bringing Harvard once-beleaguered Department of Afro-American Studies into a new era is DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had been at Duke University for only one year when Harvard grabbed him. Bitter Duke students joked that Gates got his nickname, "Skip" because he jumped so frequently from...
Golly, it must be boring to go to Duke or Michigan or any of those athletic powerhouse schools...
...eleven games, the squad lost to every team from the top-ranked Duke Blue Devils to the lowly Baboon Beavers of Division...
Next year, Yardlings will have a brand-new dean of first-year students, Elizabeth S. Nathans. The former Duke University associate dean has said she plans to modify Harvard's first-year advising system so that students take better advantage of the resources available...