Word: section
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...American, 7.8 percent black and 5.6 percent Latino. But only 15 percent of students come from families which make less than $65,000 a year, an income at the 92.3 national percentile. Essentially, 85 percent of Harvard students come from the richest 7.7 percent of America--hardly a cross-section of our society...
...TAKE SEASONS FOR AN ORchestra to reflect the skills and tastes of a new conductor. Older players have to retire, and new section principals be appointed; in rehearsal, players must learn to deliver, say, a richer string sound or a brassier brass. That's why what is going on in San Francisco is creating such a buzz in the classical-music world. It has been just six months since Michael Tilson Thomas inherited the baton from the sober Swede Herbert Blomstedt, but already the San Francisco Symphony has undergone a transformation. Woodwinds dance merrily, the brass resonates nobly...
Because the fetus appeared to be in a buttocks-first, or breech position, Patty was scheduled for a Caesarean section. She was woozy with anesthesia, and Mike was not in the room, when doctors attempted the delivery. They pulled out the buttocks, then the legs and finally, to their astonishment, two heads. "We all stood in silence for about 30 seconds," recalls Dr. Joy Westerdahl, the family's physician, who assisted at the birth. "It was extremely silent...
BILL SAPORITO, TIME's new business editor, joins us from our sister publication FORTUNE, where he spent a decade writing about corporate takeovers and editing the magazine's Newstrends section. "The world of commerce has never been more complex, or more important, given our shared anxieties about layoffs and restructuring," says Saporito. At FORTUNE he loved the fast pace of Newstrends' late-breaking stories but not the magazine's fortnightly schedule. "It drove me crazy to sit there for a week and not be able to jump on a hot story," he says. Now, at this weekly newsmagazine, he gets...
...been instructed by Starr's staff not to speak about what they know. The Clintons' and McDougals' activities in Whitewater, involving federally regulated banks, savings and loans, federal taxes, favors bestowed and accepted, are areas covered by a network of criminal and civil laws. Under federal law Title 18, section 1344, for example, it may be a crime to submit a false financial-disclosure statement. Perjury and obstruction of justice are also crimes under investigation. Factual issues of knowledge and intent loom large in whether any laws were broken. Ultimately a grand jury and the independent counsel will consider that...