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...flinging of dollar bills in the general direction of Washington. Bantam has paid "about" $1 million to Geraldine Ferraro for Ferraro: My Story, due in October; Simon & Schuster "more or less" $1 million to Jeane Kirkpatrick for her U.N. memoirs; and Random House $1 million to House Speaker Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill...
Behind those executives, advancing through the ranks in banks, manufacturing companies, retail firms and service corporations are thousands of ambitious young women. Says Rand Corp. Economist James P. Smith: "They are in the pipeline in middle management now. It is inevitable that after 20 years of work experience, a good number of those women will...
...their way of life. As someone who believes in God but is also assimilated, remarks Harris, "I did not like the Lubavitchers' rigidity, the absoluteness of right and wrong that they perceived. I consider unsureness to be the proper condition of life." --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Michael P. Harris/New York
Back in 1994, when Houghton replaced Charles P. Slichter ’45, a beloved physicist and chemist at the University of Illinois, the swap of a businessman for an academic seemed to augur a marked corporatization of the Corporation. But Summers was taking the board in a slightly more specific direction. His appointees were pure economists by training, men most likely to concur with his empirical approach to university governance. And perhaps more importantly, the three economists—Summers, Rubin, and Reischauer, stewards of the golden era of the Clinton economy—were all pals. It would...
...Staff writer Joshua P. Rogers can be reached at jprogers@fas.harvard.edu...