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Though Harvard has been ranked first in academic excellence in national rankings and touts the diversity of its student body, its performance in hiring minority and female faculty and scholars, measured against 18 comparable institutions, has been only average. "We're probably more like the middle of the pack on the minority front, and I'd say probably a little better on the women front," says Hoyte of Harvard's ranking in tenured faculty...
While on Clinton's trail, Shapiro slipped away from the press pack to catch 15 ball games. He wasn't the only one. "I'm surprised at the number of political reporters who are passionate baseball fans," he says. "I think it has to do with small boys and numbers." He got hooked on baseball statistics at age eight and was drawn as well to election-return tables. He had already been notified by the Little League coaches of Norwalk, Connecticut, that he was fated to fandom rather than stardom on the field...
...FRIDAY, PHILIP MORRIS SLASHED 40 CENTS OFF THE price of Marlboro cigarettes, reducing the average cost of a pack to $1.80. Admitting that this aggressive pricing could reduce earnings 40% this year, the company said it had to meet the challenge of discount and generic brands. Fears of a price war prompted Wall Street to dump tobacco stocks. Philip Morris shares plunged $14.75, to $49.38, and since the company is among the 30 firms whose stocks are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that bellwether index plummeted. A weak bond market and news that the unemployment rate remained...
Afterward, in the Ranger locker room, his medical-marvel right arm wrapped in an ice pack, Ryan grew pensive. What bothered him, as he looked ahead to his record 27th and, alas, final big-league season, was not the intimations of his own baseball mortality but rather the odd sensation of pitching to five- time batting champion Wade Boggs in a Yankee uniform. For 11 seasons, Boggs was as much a part of the Boston Red Sox as the fabled Green Monster wall in Fenway Park's left field. Now he had changed to pinstripes (part of the off- season...
CAPTION: Do you favor or oppose a tax of $1 on a pack of cigarettes...