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...DIDN?T START THE FIRE: On May 29, Hyperion will publish "Firehouse" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam. The book will be a portrait of Engine 40 Ladder 35 on W. 66th Street, which lost 12 men in the WTC attack. According to the publisher, "In the tradition of John Hersey?s ?Hiroshima,? Halberstam tells the story of the community within this firehouse, before, during and after the cataclysmic events of September 11th." The book grew out of an article commissioned by Vanity Fair, where Halberstam is a contributing editor...
...Japan Research Institute, an economic think tank, if Japanese companies continue to shift production to China at the rate they are now, Japan's envied $48.96 billion trade surplus will slip away entirely and become a deficit within five years. "Japan has to move up the economic ladder, and shift trade from goods to services and intellectual property," Xie says, "unless it wants to go back to being a poor country again...
...since that game, Princeton has slid down the Ivy ladder, and playing its next four games on the road may not help. All the same, there are a number of menacing Tigers to be reckoned with...
...Karlen for the No. 1 spot. After injuries knocked Karlen out of competition, Bullock and junior Dylan Patterson had an intense challenge match to decide the top of the lineup. Harvard Coach Satinder Bajwa said on Sunday that the team would hold another set of challenges to determine the ladder before the Yale match...
...cases like Cherifi's, he adds, that ember is often a lingering fury at the racial and economic prejudices that French Arabs and their families feel they suffer in French society. Ironically, that anger can be fanned into flame by their own success in climbing up the socioeconomic ladder...