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...least my sense that I am leaving Princeton at the top of its game," he said. "The university is really in very good shape with lots of capacity for my successor and the board of trustees to take new initiatives...
...movie studios, music companies and video-game makers push violent products on children. Landing as it did in the middle of the campaign season, the report caught the attention of Washington at the highest levels of presidential ambition. Al Gore gave the entertainment companies six months to shape up their marketing practices or face unspecified retaliation from Washington. The Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by John McCain, held a hearing to examine the FTC conclusions. Senate colleague Joe Lieberman showed up to express his and Gore's distress. Dick Cheney's wife Lynne, former head of the National Endowment...
...ranked woman triathlete, was tipped to win this event. And a few of her countrymen, somewhere around 150,000 of them, turned out to cheer her on over the suitable-for-framing course that started with a swim in Sydney Harbor. She looked to be in good shape there--Australian athletes perform best when wet. Plying waters ringed by shark-repelling sonar devices, Jones avoided becoming fish breakfast, then took the lead in the bike race. But she could not repel Switzerland's Brigitte McMahon in the run. The Swiss held her off in a desperate finish after they...
...numbers hint that such a scenario is taking shape again. Treasury bonds this year have returned 13.9% and cash (T bills) 3.9%, both outstripping the 2.2% return from stocks, according to Ibbotson Associates. The disparity is less dramatic after taxes. Bonds are taxed as ordinary income; stocks are taxed as capital gains, normally a lower rate. Still, these returns are unusual and suggest there is something in the air. Investors have responded by taking their most defensive posture in years. It all seems a little overdone. Few economists forecast a recession anytime soon. Yet with the often unsettling month...
...plus side, when the two teams do end up playing out the game, Harvard will likely be in better shape in terms of personnel than it would have been Tuesday. While the Crimson's injury status has improved steadily since the start of the season, sophomores Beth Totman (stress fractures) and Katie Urbanic (back strain) are still...