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Wetlaufer is widely considered a talented editor who successfully oversaw HBR's transformation from a bimonthly to a monthly. But her staff was upset that she waited almost a month after the affair with Welch began before facing up to the potential conflict of interest--and even then acted largely at the urging of someone outside the magazine. That someone was Jane Welch, 49, Jack's wife, who reportedly knew about the affair and called Wetlaufer to question whether the editor could be neutral in her article...
...French no longer carry their old weight. The relationship with Germany is not what it was, with a growing understanding between London and Berlin. The enlargement of the E.U. threatens to reduce France's political clout and cut its big farm subsidies. Further afield, the Foreign Minister gets upset about the "hyper power" of the United States but has little to offer as a realistic alternative. Attempts at Middle East mediation have come to nothing. West Africa, where Paris continued to play a neo-colonialist role after the end of empire, is a mess...
...Every upset immediately comes with the assumption that the favorite did not play to its potential. But often the classification as an upset is simply a misjudgement of the team’s relative levels of talent and intensity...
...Harvard women’s basketball team has moved on from celebrating its Ivy championship. The 13th-seeded Crimson left yesterday for its NCAA tournament first round matchup tomorrow against North Carolina, and pulling off the second first-round upset in school history is now the focus. It’s business as usual—again...
...Stanford had even better home numbers when Harvard beat the top-seeded Cardinal in 1998. And most of those North Carolina numbers came from Tar Heel teams far superior to the one Harvard is playing tomorrow. That makes Harvard’s 71-67 upset of Stanford in 1998 and Dartmouth’s 70-66 near-miss against defending champion Purdue in 2000 better indicators of how Harvard will perform tomorrow than years of North Carolina history...