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...Anti-Semitism in the corporate business world is probably less prevalent than your essay indicates. Many Jews who fail to climb the executive ladder are quick to use anti-Semitism as a cloak to hide their own weaknesses. These people, by helping to keep the fear of anti-Semitism alive among Jews, do more harm to Judaism than George Lincoln Rockwell and the whole American Nazi Party...
Three fire engines, including a book-and-ladder truck, roared into the quad, but all they found was a lot of smoke and what fireman George Carvahlo called "delayed ignition in the oil burner...
...rebel capital, and thus win an important psychopolitical victory that could topple the Saigon regime. But if they fail (and clearly U.S. policy is determined to make them fail), then Dr. Quat's chances of surviving will climb another notch. And with him on that slippery ladder to governmental stability climbs the whole future of South Viet...
...next step on the ladder is an instructorship, and the Department has 12 of these. This position is open only to men and women who have already received their Ph.D., and is virtually unique to Harvard these days. At most institutions Ph.D.'s are known as assistant professors right from the start--a title which carries more prestige, but usually no more money. Even so, Fleming says, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit recent Ph.D.'s from outside the University to fill the post, a factor which contributes heavily to the inbreeding which the Department is always trying...
Chum Steele, Harvard's one really big-game player, overpowered Dave Benjamin and Clive Kileff to move into the top spot. The other reshuffling was at the bottom of the ladder, where Richie Friedman downed Terry Robinson for the number five position...