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...Haitian Americans, like Cuban Americans before them, are beginning the passage from huddled refugees to more confident immigrants and players in the U.S. "We are not going to let Haitian traditions like restavek flourish here because we know now that America is the great equalizer among us," says attorney Phillip Brutus, who in November was elected Florida's first Haitian-American state legislator. "We're making giant leaps from where we were 10 years ago in that sense...
That may have helped for a while. Blue chips like AT&T, Boeing, IBM and Phillip Morris have seen their bottom lines boosted by pension income, according to a study by the benefits consulting firm Towers Perrin. The study found that in 1999 alone, companies in the Dow Jones industrial average saw their pension funds' income increase more than $1 billion--the same amount that accounted for pension expenses the year before...
...face the fact that Venter had not been dealing in hype. And, in the end, the genome project was forced to adopt some of Venter's ideas to avoid being left behind. "It was," admits Watson, "the correct way to go." Thanks to Venter's maverick ways, says Phillip Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "we have the human genome four years early, and it's spectacular. Craig is to be applauded for doing this...
...manages and invests all of the Harvard's funds. Its top five professionals--also including Phillip Gross earning $8.7 million, Robert Atchinson earning $7.3 million and Frank Dunau earning $5.8 million-- have invested Harvard's money extremely successfully, outside experts have concluded...
...have yet to see the compassion in compassionate conservative," said UT junior Phillip Dupre, drawing strong applause from the crowd that had gathered...