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...kept her out of school; her father, the headmaster of the local primary school, taught her at home. Despite the shaky start, Van Andel-Schipper has enjoyed robust health ever since. She even sailed through a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 100. "Her standard reply whenever anything goes wrong is, 'There's no point in moaning,'" says Beijering. "She's a great believer in the power of positive thinking...
...currently the world's largest steel producer, was formed in 2002 through the merger of steel companies in Luxembourg, Spain and France. Corus emerged from the 1999 union of British Steel and Dutch firm Hoogovens. In order for steelmakers to wield sufficient clout, notes Tommy Trask, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, steel "needs to be as consolidated as the iron-ore suppliers or the end customers." Both Mittal and Wilbur Ross, the former investment banker and distressed investment specialist who helped create ISG, envisage a future where steel is dominated by as few as half a dozen multinational companies...
Other things that the David Project would like to see added at Columbia include a tougher policy to prevent professors from intimidating students, a diversity of academic perspectives that would focus more broadly on the Middle East and the adoption of a single standard for minorities, which would treat Jews like other minorities...
Already the standard bearer for single-season performances—his 14 rushing touchdowns and 15 total scores through six games give him one more in each category than Chris Menick ’00 managed in 1997—Dawson will also threaten a pair of career marks before the year is out, though he is just a sophomore. Harvard’s career touchdown mark—29, held by Mike Giardi ’94—will fall after four more Dawson trips to paydirt, paving the way for the demolition of a record that...
...band was actually recording the performance that night and captured the impromptu feedback on tape. Rand only recently discovered that tape and it has caused some discussion that it may mark the earliest recording of the feedback technique, which was made standard during the psychedelic era a few years down the road...