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...constructive look” at University Hall will be one of the first documents waiting for the dean who will take the helm of FAS after Kirby leaves at the end of June. “With all this transition it’s a good time to take stock of everything,” said Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, who said Thompson is a “wonderful, wonderful person.” Thompson left University Hall in 2000 and served as senior adviser to the dean of the Kennedy School...
...News observers have noted the round-the-clock TV coverage given over to one of the media?s favorite stock victims, the missing white woman. In that context, I almost welcome the constant updates from Durham. It not only brings a bit of parity to how we cover alleged victims of different races, it has also, obviously, spurred conversations about race, class and sex issues that may lay dormant but have never been fully resolved...
...MAKE WALL STREET HAPPY. In an effort to curry favor with dispirited Bush backers in the investment world, the Administration will focus on two tax measures already in the legislative pipeline--extensions of the rate cuts for stock dividends and capital gains. "We need all these financial TV shows to be talking about how great the economy is, and that only happens when their guests from Wall Street talk about it," said a presidential adviser. "This is very popular with investors, and a lot of Republicans are investors...
...focused and consistent effort to talk about the program's successes after months of press reports on start-up difficulties. Bolten's plan also calls for more happy talk about the economy. With gas prices a heavy drain on Bush's popularity, his aides want to trumpet the lofty stock market and stable inflation and interest rates. They also plan to highlight any glimmer of success in Iraq, especially the formation of a new government, in an effort to balance the negative impression voters get from continued signs of an incubating civil...
DIED. Louise Smith, 89, scrappy stock-car racer of the 1940s and '50s and the first woman to be inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame; in Anderson, S.C. In 1946 her reputation as a teenage daredevil in her hometown of Greenville, S.C., led Bill France, who co-founded NASCAR the next year, to recruit her as a draw for fans in a local race. Before retiring in 1956 at the urging of her husband--whose brand-new Ford she had totaled in a 1947 race--Smith won 38 events in various classes. "I was just born...