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Early acceptance programs have come under significant criticism recently after Yale University President Richard C. Levin spoke out strongly against such programs, telling the New York Times in a Dec. 13 article, “If we all got rid of [early decision], it would be a good thing...
RETIRING. LINDA FAIRSTEIN, 54, chief prosecutor of New York City's sex-crimes unit who successfully pushed national and local legislation on behalf of rape victims; in New York City. Among her best-known cases was the conviction of preppie Robert Chambers in the 1986 manslaughter of teen Jennifer Levin...
...grow at an 8% rate, estimates the consultancy Accenture. By 2010 that will mean producing six new drugs a year. Most companies today grind out just one or two a year. "Productivity is the No. 1 issue going forward in the pharmaceutical industry," says Millennium CEO Mark Levin...
Yale President Richard Levin doesn't like EARLY ADMISSIONS, the policy of letting high school seniors apply to one college early, usually by November. "It pushes the pressure of thinking about college back into the junior year of high school," he told the New York Times. There are BENEFITS: students, for example, can lock up a favorite school early and have a stress-free last semester of high school. Most elite-college presidents aren't ready to junk the practice. "Everybody is worried about the PRESSURE ON STUDENTS in high school," says Stanford's John Hennessy...
...group he founded in 1989 a year after his failed U.S. presidential campaign, to devote time to ministry; in Virginia. Recently Robertson fueled controversy following the Sept. 11 attack when he espoused televangelist Jerry Falwell's accusations that liberal groups were partly to blame for the tragedy. RETIRING. GERALD LEVIN, 62, the ceo of AOL Time Warner (Time's parent company), after 30 years as a top corporate executive and a mastermind behind Time Inc.'s transformation into the world's No. 1 media company; in New York. Richard Parsons, the co-coo, will succeed Levin as the head...