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...some extent, Harvard's Ivory Tower and reputation are tall enough to keep its students above the economic fray. Murray emphasizes that recruiters focus on Harvard because they want the cream of the crop...
...About Mary" managed to hang in the top 10 grossing movies two months after its initial release, but it finished No. 1 at the box office Labor Day weekend, earning about $11.6 million. It was helped by a singular lack of competition. Only one new wide-release entered the fray this past weekend: "Knock Off," a martial arts movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, which opened in fourth place with a humble $5.6 million. "Blade," which had spent the previous two weeks at No. 1, slipped to second place with $10.4 million. "Saving Private Ryan" held steady in third with...
...much of surprise when the defiant Dr. Mahathir threw the switch Tuesday on a plan that has the Western economic establishment covering its eyes in horror -- but also peeking through its fingers: impose strict currency controls and save the embattled Malaysian ringgit simply by removing it from the fray. The theory is attractive, especially to the prickly Mahathir: An inconvertible currency can't come under attack by evil foreign speculators, and that frees the safely walled-in government to take a deep breath, lower its internal interest rates, and pull itself out of recession by stimulating domestic growth -? without subjecting...
Harvard's yield rose 4 points to a schoolrecord of 80 percent while other schools hoverednear their recent averages. Without even formallyjoining the fray, Harvard seems to have won thisspring's bidding war for high school students...
...that letting Microsoft integrate one new breakthrough after another into an OS that, at least for the foreseeable future, most of humanity will have little practical choice but to purchase will stifle innovation. It will leave no incentive for any new, and potentially better, competing products to enter the fray...