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Visitors inspired to make the trip downtown this week might make one more stop. At Varick and North Moore, a minute from Canal and just 12 blocks north of where the Trade Center once stood, is the firehouse of N.Y.F.D. Ladder Co. 8. You can stand outside, with the candles and damp flowers, and see the picture of a fire fighter missing since Sept. 11. Then turn south to look at the now unscraped sky and wonder when the rest of the world will be touched by the magic with which New Yorkers live each...
...Crimson alpine team hopes to climb the ladder of its 11-team conference after gaining experience this weekend. Last weekend’s competition was the second race for most teams, but Harvard missed the season-opening race due to finals week...
...that women are ascending in corporate America, it came this month when Patricia Russo, above, left the heir apparent's office at Kodak to return to troubled Lucent Technologies as its CEO and rescuer in chief. Surveys show that more women are reaching the top rungs of the executive ladder than ever before: the number of FORTUNE 500 companies with female board members has jumped 25.8% since 1993. Sure, a few CEOs have had a hard time lately. But, ironically, that's just another sign of progress. As Julie Weeks, research director at the Washington-based Center for Women...
CLIMBING THE LADDER...
...rather than to battle, studying Russian in Hanoi and then forestry in the Soviet Union. When victorious communist troops entered Saigon in 1975, Manh was attending an Elite party training school for future leaders in Bac Can. After first joining the National Assembly at age 49, he climbed the ladder quickly. It was an ascent aided, some say, by the talk that he was the offspring of Ho Chi Minh and a Tay servant. "I don't know why this rumor persisted for so long," Manh told TIME. Diplomats and local analysts say it persisted because he never convincingly denied...