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Business schools, which closely monitor their graduates and where they find jobs, have been noticing some figures lately that suggest a quiet brain drain is under way. At Stanford, 14% of the class of '94 elected to seek jobs abroad, compared with 6% in 1989. Business schools across the country -- from UCLA to the University of Chicago to Harvard -- report similar numbers. These swelling percentages include foreign nationals returning home. But at New York University's Stern School of Business, the number of American students taking jobs overseas has jumped 20% this year compared with a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Work? Try the World. | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Friday Simpson's lawyers heard the verdict. In a letter to attorneys Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran Jr., Assistant District Attorney Frank Sunstedt explained that after "consideration of all available aggravating and mitigating . . . evidence," the sentencing committee he chairs had opted to seek life without the possibility of parole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Circus | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Republicans complained they were being ignored by a hawkish White House. GOP protestations from Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and presidential aspirant Dan Quayle were no surprise. But leading Democrats also got skittish: Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Thomas Foley both said they preferred the president seek Congress' OK before any invasion. Clinton scheduled a Thursday night TV address to make his case. What to watch for: he may announce a firm deadline for Haiti's military junta to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI . . . COLD FEET, BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT | 9/13/1994 | See Source »

...strategy was to have a strong vocal presence at the conference. Last week the Pope's chief spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, accused Vice President Gore of misrepresenting the U.S. position on abortion. Referring to a recent speech in which Gore stated that "the U.S. has not sought, does not seek and will not seek to establish any international right to abortion," Navarro-Valls said, "The draft document, which has the United States as its principal sponsor, contradicts, in reality, Mr. Gore's statement." To bolster his claim, Navarro-Valls cited a U.N. proposal that women "have access to safe, effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of Wills in Cairo | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Hispanic females, late teens and already older than Eve, seek communal sisterhood. Motherhood we had forced upon us years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Little Movies That Could | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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