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...really know what would happen ifsomeone didn't pull their load," he says. "There'snothing formally established for overseeing the TFsystem...
...with AK-47 assault rifles and grenades. Facing directly into the enfilade, Maier's only defense was a light submachine gun, which he fired from the cockpit with his right hand. That left the pilot only his left hand to steady the chopper, while copilot Keith Jones struggled to load two injured Rangers aboard, then yelled at Maier to take off. Left behind were a handful of wounded Rangers, plus the bodies of Wolcott and his copilot, Donovan Briley, 33, of Little Rock, Arkansas...
...Core curriculum, which has assumed almost cult status as the perfectly useless system of academic requirements, is the most obvious, though by no means the only, example of Harvard's neglect of undergraduate education. Only at Harvard can one find requirements that usurp a quarter of an undergraduate course load without guaranteeing that any student will actual learn anything...
...Davis: No. That's pure nonsense. The 1980s was purely going on overextending debt and looking for never-never land. Balance sheets meant nothing in the 1980s. Today anybody who takes on a load of debt is going to work his tail off to bring it down. You can't just call up a Drexel or a Goldman or a Merrill Lynch and say, gee, I've got this wonderful idea, I need 7 billion bucks, do you think you can finance...
Today's casino-driven prosperity is a somewhat self-contained bubble. The state's welfare case load has risen 54% just since 1991. "We currently have 10,500 new jobs coming online," says welfare administrator Mila Florence, referring to the staffing of the Luxor, Treasure Island and MGM Grand. "The number of persons coming into the state seeking those jobs far exceeds the number of jobs available, so our agency becomes the safety...