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With the first win of 1998 under its belt, the Crimson next turns to the 16th-ranked University of Massachusetts squad which knocked off ninth-ranked James Madison 4-2 in Charlottesville, Va., yesterday...
When Donna Shalala became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1988, the school's alumni and friends told her that in order to raise $400 million for a capital campaign, she would have to learn to play golf. There was no substitute, it seemed, for hitting up potential donors on the links. The university arranged for her to go to golf school for a week. "I had never had a golf club in my hand," says Shalala, now Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services--and one of the few Cabinet officers with...
Nearly all employers these days are too knowledgeable to say anything of the sort. A former senior vice president of one of Madison Avenue's biggest ad agencies tells this story: In February 1996 he got an unexpected summons to the office of a new and younger boss. On his way in he nodded to a woman he did not know; he thought he was about to be given a new account with which she was somehow connected. But in a five-minute interview, the boss told the executive, who was then 47, that he was being fired for "lack...
...doors [SPECIAL REPORT, Aug. 10]. Perhaps the reason that the American people appreciate him and his polls rise with every scandal is that we see a bit of ourselves in him. It's heartening to know you can be imperfect and still make it to the top. TONY REICHENBERGER Madison...
Even old rogues like Zorro and Godzilla have been reinvented as family men this summer, the former with a long-lost daughter, the latter with a brood of babyzillas left unattended in Madison Square Garden. Lost in Space, which was released last spring, was already about a family back when it was a crummy TV show. As a crummy movie, it turns itself into a cautionary tale about bad parenting, complete with an It's a Wonderful Life-like parallel universe in which we see what becomes of latchkey kids on other planets (nothing good...