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With a talented returning squad and a list of recruits which features five first-team All-State players from around the country, there again is speculation over at Briggs that "This could be the year...
When Financial World magazine published its annual list of Wall Street's 100 highest earners last week, no one was surprised to see junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken on top (1988 income: at least $180 million) and leveraged- buyout king Henry Kravis ($110 million) in third place. But who was this in the No. 2 position? A relatively unknown dealmaker named Gordon Cain, 77, took that spot by earning an estimated $120 million last year through his Houston LBO firm, Sterling Group...
Indeed, two top feminist scholars were on the short list of candidates for the position--Harvard Law School Professor Martha L. Minow and Duke University Professor Anne F. Scott. But both removed themselves from the list. Another candidate, Yale University Professor Judith Rodin, turned down Radcliffe's offer. The Board of Trustees should not have been surprised. What committed academic would want to be the president of a college consisting solely of three programs...
...Maryland-based group called the Made in the USA Foundation plans to compile a list of popular products and their place of manufacture for a forthcoming book titled Made in the USA: A Catalog of the Best American Products. Joel Joseph, the group's founder, plans to contrast such U.S.-made goods as Levi's and Macintosh computers with ringers that include Perry Ellis "America Series" shirts (made in Mauritius) and Rockport shoes (Portugal and Taiwan). Joseph is lobbying for legislation that would require advertisers to disclose where their products are manufactured...
...able to get better results. Dr. Paul Ellwood, chairman of the InterStudy health-policy center near Minneapolis, predicts that within a year at least 100 patient- outcomes projects will be under way, with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied are those for cataracts, diabetes and broken hips (the question: When is replacing the hip the best thing to do?). A report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that one type of prostate surgery works better than an increasingly popular alternative operation...