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...recruiting a highly touted high school student, Russell contacted the athlete’s guidance counselor to inquire about his academic standing. According to Russell, because the student’s school did not supply Harvard with class rank, the recruit’s Academic Index (AI)—a combination of a student’s SAT and SAT II scores, as well as class rank—made admission unlikely...
...Zemin came to power in 1989 in part because of his support for the crackdown. A government admission of wrongdoing, as the doctor urges, would be a blow to the ex-President's campaign to secure his legacy as a great leader. Indeed, because of the doctor's high rank in the P.L.A., Jiang Zemin, in his capacity as military chief, is the only person empowered by the army's disciplinary code to authorize the detention...
Returning home from Vietnam with the rank of captain and five medals, including three purple hearts, John Kerry became a leading protester against the war. He used his newfound prominence to launch a bid for Congress, but failed. After a stint as a high-profile prosecutor in Massachusetts' Middlesex County and then a term as Lieutenant Governor, he finally gained national office when he was elected to the Senate in 1984. Yale, Vietnam and the Senate are the biographical highlights that the Kerry campaign is using to introduce the candidate to voters. But it was his earliest years that formed...
...easy to make fun of the French and their pompous pretense to the grandeur they shed a half-century ago when their loss of honor under Vichy, and then their loss of empire, relegated them to the rank of second-class power. But the fun is over. Before Sept. 11, France's Gaullist anti-Americanism as a form of ostentatious self-aggrandizement was an irritant. With a war on--three, in fact: Afghanistan, Iraq and the larger war on terrorism--France's willful obstructionism becomes dangerous and deadly...
...needs stock options to attract good employees, has led the opposition. No lesser lights than Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan have endorsed expensing. Here's the rub: surveys show that if options must be expensed, nearly half the companies with broad plans will cut back grants to the rank and file, while only a handful will cut equity-based compensation to executives. "We'd have to rethink our ability to provide stock options to all employees," says Marc Jones, CEO of Visionael, where the expensing rule would chop $1.5 million off reported profits...