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...NASDAQ board meeting in Manhattan last month, a visitor approached a compact, white-haired guy who looks as if he belongs in a college chemistry lab and asked if he was thinking about a top job in the new Administration. "No way," replied Paul O'Neill, with a smile. "I'm too old." O'Neill, 65, allowed as how he might consider running a task force on something really messy and complicated, such as fixing Social Security. But having spent the past 23 years running Alcoa and International Paper, O'Neill and his wife Nancy Jo were looking to step...
...lessons from tenured university faculty. Undergraduates serve as teachers' aides, and kids spend their summer vacations studying on the campus of a nearby college. When students graduate from the fifth grade, they get a handshake and a diploma from a university president. So it was understandable that when a visitor recently toured the school, a bespectacled third-grader asked, "Excuse me, Miss? Are you a professor...
Once one is settled in an apartment or house, life is quite manageable for foreigners, especially if they learn some Italian. Basic medical care is accessible and decent. A resident's visa is easy to obtain, although a visitor's visa may be fine for brief stays. Foreigners can e-mail those back home, as well as open a bank account for depositing U.S. checks...
...familiar face for Harvard was stationed at an unfamilar location after the Princeton game--the visitor's locker room...
...book, they would do it, and the cursory check at the door would be no barrier. In fact, one door checker told me that they hardly ever find anyone stealing books. "And that's how it should be," he said. Right. So why the system that burdens every library visitor and requires a full time guard...