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...penchant for instant nostalgia with its recent college grads singing Schoolhouse Rock ditties. This premature sentimentality might explain why That '70s Show, Fox's sweetly frothy sitcom about small-town teens, is a hit among viewers who, in the Carter era, were wearing pj's with footies. (Its median audience age is 31; its characters would be in their early 40s now.) That in turn explains why, last summer, Fox asked the '70s creative team to do the same for the greed decade...
...congressional investigations opened its hearings on Thursday with a tableau we might as well get used to: Enron's former outside auditor taking the Fifth Amendment. On Friday J. Clifford Baxter, 43, an executive who left Enron last May, was found dead in his Mercedes-Benz in the median of a divided highway in the fancy Houston suburb of Sugar Land--an apparent suicide. That same day, as if on cue, the White House acknowledged that Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, had recommended that Enron hire a key G.O.P. consultant during the early days of Bush's presidential...
...contradictory assumptions. Some studies state that rent should never require more than 30 percent of income, and that the cheapest 40 percent of housing will always be inadequate for families’ essential needs. Others assume that it is enough for workers to make a certain percentage of the median family income, regardless of how high or low that might be. Still more declare that wages should be high enough to prevent workers from needing government assistance—though never explaining why, if the goal is to keep families fed and clothed, available public aid should be ignored...
Buell and Thomas both said they were in favor of instituting a policy similar to that employed by Dartmouth College, where two grades are listed beside each course on a student’s transcript—the grade the student earned in the class and the median grade for the class...
...median salary for a university president rose to $331,727. Also, 86 university presidents earned over $300,000 during the 2000 academic year compared to 74 the year before, a 16 percent increase...