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What do you do if you hunger year after year for the championship of football's tough Big Eight conference, which includes perennial powerhouses like Oklahoma and Nebraska? For the Flatirons, the University of Colorado's well-heeled booster club, the answer was to call a power play...
One trouble about hiring Fairbanks was that he happened to have four years left on his Patriots contract. But that didn't stop the Flatirons-or him. To entice Fairbanks westward, they reportedly offered him a package considerably more attractive than his $150,000 salary with New England: $45...
Behind him, Teng left a state of near euphoria among many political and business leaders, excited about the "parallel interests" of China and the U.S. that his triumphant tour seemed to have illuminated. But some Sinologists, including Harvard's John Fairbanks, dean of U.S. China watchers, were already warning...
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Then there is the question of faculty quality. Hawes offers a ranking of average or median academic salaries, "one very basic indicator of the college's academic quality." On this novel scale, Kutztown's median of $21,600 lords it over Oberlin's $16,700, Smith'...