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...willing to sacrifice one cent of its gargantuan endowment, even in the short run, to give fully qualified minority students equality with their more established peers. Instead, the university prefers to "phase in" equality, waiting for its pool of Asian-American graduates to climb up the income ladder and to pay their dues for the privilege of admitting their children...
Even then, Dan Rather had a nose for trouble. But it was the sort of trouble that was good for the career of an ambitious young TV reporter climbing steadily up the network ladder. Rather, at 56, is now at the very top of that ladder, anchorman for the CBS Evening News and possibly the most powerful TV journalist in America. But his emotional, frequently combative style has also made him the most controversial. Rather's heated encounter with George Bush last week was just the latest in a barrage of storms, big and small, that seem to engulf...
...think it's a case of old-fashioned hard work," Cornell Coach Brian McCutcheon said, explaining his team's climb up the ECAC ladder. "Everyone has pulled together...
...parents. Experts think such violence is caused by stress, a history of abuse or an obsessive need for control. Says Author Fedders: "Rich men like to have the control at home that they get elsewhere. There's very little difference between the stress of a man climbing the corporate ladder and the stress on a guy who's out of work...
Freshmen Daphine Onderdonk and Stephanie Clark have both cracked the starting ladder, playing sixth and seventh respectively...