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...since grown into a $12 billion-a-year colossus with 48,000 employees and 33,000 miles of track crisscrossing 23 Western states. Today UP handles some 30% of the nation's rail freight traffic. But during the past year, the legendary railroad has been groaning under the weight of embarrassing logistical breakdowns...
...strong statements opposing the appearance of military recruiters on campus; we wish the University would follow up in court and defend its right to issue its own recruitment standards. Those who argue that Harvard ought to stay out of political issues and refrain from putting its moral weight behind causes lose sight of the fact that passive inaction is not the same as neutrality. By allowing “unsound and corrosive public policy” to dictate Harvard’s procedures—and refusing to put up a fight against it—Harvard indeed sends...
...adding weight to the rumor, Laursen admitted visiting the Danilovsky Monastery—the original home of the bells—while in Moscow with his family this summer...
...Americans--as many as 90%, pollsters have told me privately--refuse to answer questions when the wizard calls (although the number is marginally better this hot election year). People who use cell phones exclusively, mostly younger voters, are unreachable. The wizards say they can correct for these things, by "weighting" their polls--that is, giving disproportionate weight to members of underrepresented groups like young people. But surely that makes polling less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shiftsBush moved ahead in the presidential race after the Republican Conventionrather than specific point spreads...
...authors of Livin' Large: African American Sisters Confront Obesity (Hilton), are on a crusade to save black women from what they view as an obesity epidemic. In a lively, encouraging book, the sisters pass along good, color-blind suggestions to women wanting to walk away from a lifetime of weight-related problems. Their honesty and enthusiasm will energize many women to battle the bulge. --By Andrea Sachs