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...business schools suffer from a dramatic gender gap, just the top tier. A survey of all accredited programs has women accounting for almost 40% of graduates. But in business, where who you studied with is as important as what you learned, the value of a name-brand diploma is particularly high. And the fact that women aren't getting them has the business world all worked up. "Women business leaders are tremendously important to our company. We market to moms," says Mary Kay Haben, an executive vice president at Kraft Foods. "We rely on the top business schools to help...
...Moines Register ran an editorial on Kosovo and the various candidates under the headline MCCAIN 1, OTHERS 0. And in New Hampshire, where McCain hopes the state's famously independent-minded Republicans will reward his independence, a poll last week showed him leapfrogging over some of the lower-tier G.O.P. candidates into third place behind front runners George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole. The result has been a boost in direct-mail fund-raising receipts and a spike in interest among activists in key states. Until a few weeks ago, Pete Spaulding, a Republican who serves on New Hampshire...
...real. The stigma of adult content has been enough to frighten away top-tier underwriters like DLJ and Goldman Sachs. But for second-tier underwriters, the seamy associations might be worth the bottom-line bump. Craig Gould, vice president of National Securities, a firm that says it is likely to be in on the deal, believes the company can be floated, pointing out that BearStearns found a way to take Playboy public: "History has shown that Wall Street has raised money for adult companies," he says. Fidelity and Warburg Pincus hold blocks of Playboy stock, while BearStearns and T. Rowe...
...Second-tier teams like Dartmouth, Princeton and Providence probably need to win the ECAC Tournament to have a shot at a trip to Minnesota. But that feat will not be easy, because if any of those teams do manage a first-round upset, the lowest seed to advance will probably have to face Harvard in the semifinals...
...still work and coach at Wellesley partly because I love the players and staff there, partly because the men's and women's seasons do not overlap, and partly because I need to, for financial reasons," Wilson says. "Men's volleyball is a Tier II sport at Harvard, so the coaching position is only part-time. I have to supplement the income Harvard provides, and I can't imagine a more enjoyable second job than coaching at Wellesley...