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...always been hearing people say that Yale is the best school, partly because of the ranking," said Woo F. Kwong '94. "I've argued that Harvard is a better school, and now we've got the ranking to back...
LIFESTORIES (NBC, Sept. 12, 10 p.m. EDT). Of the networks' new fall entries, this slice-of-life-and-death series about people going through medical crises is one of the oddest. A downbeat mix of soap opera, psychological drama and medical-advice column, it will try to woo viewers away from America's Funniest Home Videos. Sort of NBC's death wish...
Publishing without benefit of advertising, admits editor in chief Robin Morgan, "goes against all the traditional wisdom. But Ms. always has. That's what we're about." Subscriptions will cost $40 a year; newsstand copies will sell for $4.50. This time around, success depends on the editors' ability to woo the sophisticated -- and choosy -- women whom the original Ms. helped create...
...counterparts. Yet foreign lenders also have their worries. The combined profits of Japan's 13 largest banks fell 11.6%, to $7.3 billion, in the fiscal year ended March 31, marking the first such decline in 10 years. The drop reflected the higher interest rates that banks must pay to woo deposits and hefty write-offs of bad loans to Mexico, the Philippines and other developing countries...
...campaign it is, but an educational, not a political, one. This is the western headquarters of Teach for America, a radical attempt to woo promising graduates of the nation's top colleges into teaching. Whirlwind Wendy Kopp conceived the idea when she was an undergraduate at Princeton. She developed it in her senior thesis and, since her graduation in 1989, has pursued it with obsessive zeal, organizing recruiters at 100 campuses and raising $2 million in corporate and foundation gifts. The basic notion is that non-education majors, after a crash course of training, will serve two-year stints...