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Coming off a dismal offensive performance against Columbia, Harvard will face an even tougher test against Princeton and Penn, as the two teams are first and second in the league in scoring defense...
...British Army, where their martial skills are prized only slightly more than their rugby talent. Two hundred of them are in Iraq; one was killed there last year. But Romanu Naceva, head of the British Ex-Servicemen and Family Association of Fiji, says entry tests are getting tougher: "Most of our sons who would like to join can't meet the standard, so they are looking for other employment." Men who join Fiji's 3,000-strong military can double their meager salaries by serving with U.N. peacekeeping missions abroad. Some 600 are currently doing so, 134 of them...
...Reports of such egregious abuses make trading on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses seem more perilous than gambling. But there's an even more fundamental problem: China's most promising companies tend to raise capital by going public in Hong Kong or New York, where tougher listing and reporting requirements make markets more trustworthy. But the majority of companies' hitting China's bourses are command-economy-era, state-owned enterprises (SOEs): many of them have limited growth prospects, while others, hopelessly uncompetitive, may be destined to fail...
...Harvard were upset last spring when Summers rejected a tenure recommendation for Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of hip-hop in the African and African-American studies department, prompting her to leave for Stanford. Some Harvard women are worried that Summers' comments will make recruitment of top female faculty even tougher. Candidates for teaching, says physics professor Melissa Franklin, "do consider the feeling among other female faculty at the university...
...transition to adulthood gets tougher the lower you go on the economic and educational ladder. Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan, found that for male workers ages 25 to 29 with only a high school diploma, the average wage declined 11% from 1975 to 2002. "When I graduated from high school, my classmates who didn't want to go to college could go to the Goodyear plant and buy a house and support a wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high...