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...with a brief stopover in Sugar Land that will surely yield some titillating follow-ups, the Enron scandal turned back toward whence it came - Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal led Friday with a story that everyone might have been talking about if anyone could understand it - how investment bank JP Morgan held Enron's hand all the way to the Jersey Channel Islands to set up one of the company's offshore partnerships/tax havens/accounting dodges - and could stand to lose $1 billion on the deal. Implication: That something rotten you're smelling in the state of business is probably...
...Western military dynamism in his 1989 work, The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Ancient Greece. He argued that the Western military ethos is traceable to warring Greek city-states, which contracted among themselves to meet at an agreed-on battlefield, fight to a decisive conclusion and not yield that field until one side was broken. The idea took root that war's central purpose was to "find and engage (the enemy) in order to end the entire business as quickly as possible." Subtitled Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution...
There is no question that the current two-tiered approach to college admissions benefits schools. They are able to guarantee that a good percentage of their incoming class will be filled with first-rate students, they can bolster their yield ratios for the overly touted U.S. News and World Reports ranking and they are better able to plan the size of the incoming class...
...staff argues that early applicants should be given no advantage over regular applicants, so students hoping that an early commitment will give them the boost to get in will no longer receive any benefit from their early application. Since the decisions are not binding, schools will not improve their yield, and they will be unable to effectively control class composition, leaving them with no incentive to incur the costs of processing an extra round of applications. The result of the staff’s opinion would be the elimination of all early applications except at the wealthiest schools...
...professors, it makes sense for the Smithsonian Observatory to retain scientists to conduct research on a long-term basis. Some of the greatest breakthroughs in science have come from serendipitous discoveries in initially unrelated lines of research. Research that at first appears to have little short-term benefit can yield incredible gains over time. Additionally, the Smithsonian Observatory’s superb record over the last century supports the argument that the observatory’s independence is part of the reason for its continued success...