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...Microsoft warning, for the first time in more than a decade, that quarterly earnings will lag behind estimates. It's Union Pacific railroad announcing that 2,000 employees will be involuntarily disembarking. It's steelmaker LTV filing for bankruptcy for the second time in 14 years. It's Montgomery Ward announcing that it is ending 128 years of American retailing history by closing its 250 stores and pink-slipping its 37,000 employees...
...Editorial Notebook" piece ("How Napster Opened My Eyes," Dec. 4), Lorrayne S. Ward praises Harvard for its refusal to ban Napster from the Harvard network, thus enabling her to expand her appreciation for diversity in music...
...Larry W. Ward, a Cambridge parent whose eighth-grade daughter boycotted the MCAS tests last year, disputes that assessment...
...Ward is a member of CARE and, like other members of the group, he says MCAS tests are unfair and too high-stakes...
...women have reached the upper echelons of FORTUNE 500 companies--up from a handful a decade ago--only two African Americans have ever been named CEO of any of these firms: Kenneth Chenault of American Express and Franklin Raines of Fannie Mae. Prominent blacks like Maytag's Lloyd Ward have resigned or been relieved of their corporate commands. In the Internet world, the minuscule number of black chief execs was prominently diminished last month when Robert Knowling was ousted as CEO of broadband provider Covad...