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...process to align with his goals of a larger Faculty drawn more from within, he must be careful not to overstep the bounds of either the law or the University’s interest. Age alone does not limit academic promise, and it should not be used as the sole measure of potential—in tenure hearings or elsewhere. No one would deny the talents or scholarship of the Faculty’s tenured professors, who have an average age of 55. Most are not past their prime. And to those who thought 28 too young for tenure, Summers...
...Meanwhile, the West was developing what Hanson calls "the only economic system that works, a rationalist tradition that alone allows material and technological progress, the sole political structure that ensures the freedom of the individual, (and) a system of ethics and a religion that brings out the best in humankind...
...Wednesday, analysts downgraded AOL Time Warner (parent company of this writer), actually slapped a "sell" - and a bankruptcy warning - on Kmart, and even pooh-poohed sole Internet survive-and-thriver eBay, just weeks before what everybody expects to be one depressing Q4 earnings announcements. And it's not just the rear-view - few expect the corporate-earnings recession to reverse itself with much drama. The 2002 graph should be slanted up - it'd be hard to slant down after the last year and half - but it looks like it'll be a pretty gentle grade...
...Laotian restaurant Mangez Avec Moi supplement their diminished income by selling F.D.N.Y. T shirts and hats on weekends. Moran's, an Irish steak house on the opposite end of the district, replaced its upscale menu with mozzarella sticks, potato skins and chicken fingers. "We couldn't offer a stuffed sole for $35 or a porterhouse," says Abby Lydon, the restaurant's co-owner. "That business lunch is no longer here...
While other squads extract people from burning buildings or handle hazardous materials, the sole job of an engine company like Mike's is to lay the hose to douse the flames. The members of Engine 28, each hauling more than 100 lbs. of gear, were dispatched directly to the scene of the blaze. Mike was in the control position that day, which means he was charged with carrying a spare canister of oxygen and a leather pouch of tools to connect the hose to the internal water pipes that run up the spines of skyscrapers...