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Inside Higher Education
Want to Get Ahead? Get Hitched
A year ago, a graduate student in economics at Cornell University released astudy showing that men who are married are more likely to finish doctoralprograms than are single men. When Inside Higher Ed wrote about the study,the graduate student, Joseph Price, received numerous questions from readerswanting to know just how far the marriage advantage took men in academe, and where it applied to women as well.
Price went back to his data and now is out with a new study. This one showsthat married men do better than single men in academe not only in finishingtheir Ph.D.'s, but in publishing and landing a first tenure-track job.
Married women have some advantages over their single counterparts, but notas many as married men do. And students with domestic partners are somewhere in the middle.
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The Guardian - UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329604507-103681,00.html
Published on Thursday, October 19, 2006 by the Guardian/UK
Bush Issues Doctrine for US Control of Space
by Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
George Bush has staked out a bold claim to the final frontier,asserting vigorously America's right to deny access to space to anyadversary hostile to US interests, it emerged yesterday.
In a muscular overhaul of policy, the US president outlines theimportance of space to the national interest, saying its domination is ascrucial to America's defences as air or sea power.
The order also opposes the establishment of arms control treaties thatwould restrict US access to space, or set limits on its use of space. Itcalls for the development of space capabilities to support US intelligenceand defence initiatives.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/world/europe/20germany.html?pagewanted=print
October 20, 2006
Seeking Quality, German Universities Scrap Equality
By MARK LANDLER
KARLSRUHE, Germany, Oct. 18 - At the university in this humdrum German town,there are no decorous strands of ivy on the 1960's buildings, nor is therethe kind of scholarly patina that blankets Heidelberg, the older, morecelebrated university just up the road.
Yet last week, when a German government committee anointed threeinstitutions as elite universities - a sort of Teutonic Ivy League -Karlsruhe made the cut while Heidelberg did not. The other winners were theUniversity of Munich and the Technical University, also in Munich.
The much anticipated decision, which entitles the schools to more than $100million each over the next five years, sent spirits soaring at Karlsruhe andswooning at Heidelberg. It also set off a national discussion about thenature of excellence, the necessity of focusing on science and technologyand the wisdom of culling the great from the merely good.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/washington/20miers.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1161342495-7cA0FEe9sPPeZcToq5SmFQ&pagewanted=print
October 20, 2006
Ruling Is Due for Justice Who Lobbied for Bush Pick
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
HOUSTON, Oct. 18 - A year after the Bush administration enlisted a TexasSupreme Court justice in its unsuccessful bid to put Harriet E. Miers on theUnited States Supreme Court, a special state court is to announce Fridaywhether the judge was guilty of "willful and persistent" violations ofjudicial ethics for his role in that effort.
The justice, Nathan L. Hecht, 57, the longest-serving member of the Texashigh court and a friend of Ms. Miers for 30 years, testified before theState Commission on Judicial Conduct that he had given about 120 interviewsto reporters in which he promoted her nomination.
Justice Hecht, a Republican who is running for re-election, also said he hadreported back to the White House on questions he was asked about Ms. Miers,President Bush's longtime counsel.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901659_pf.html
Skilling's Last Stand
Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 20, 2006; D01
Carrie Johnson former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling standsto face a judge and a possible decades-long prison sentence Monday, he willbe -- as usual -- alone.
The death of company founder Kenneth L. Lay weeks after a jury convictedboth men of fraud and conspiracy charges for misleading investors aboutEnron's financial health means that Skilling, 52, is the last personstanding from the energy company's top ranks. It is a familiar position fora man painted by the government as both unusually self-reliant andoccasionally self-destructive.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/us/politics/20conserve.html?ei=5094&en=f75af82c63e1ce7e&hp=&ex=1161403200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
October 20, 2006
Republican Woes Lead to Feuding by Conservatives
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - Tax-cutters are calling evangelicals bullies.Christian conservatives say Republicans in Congress have let them down.Hawks say President Bush is bungling the war in Iraq. And many conservativesblame Representative Mark Foley's sexual messages to teenage pages.
With polls showing Republican control of Congress in jeopardy, conservativeleaders are pointing fingers at one other in an increasingly testy circle ofblame for potential Republican losses this fall.
"It is one of those rare defeats that will have many fathers," said DavidKeene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, expressing the gloomyview of many conservatives about the outcome on Election Day. "And they willall be somebody else."
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-White-House-Logs.html?pagewanted=print
October 20, 2006
Judge Orders Cheney Visitor Logs Opened
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:25 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's officeand personal residence, an order that could spark a late election-seasondebate over lobbyists' White House access.
While researching the access lobbyists and others had on the White House,The Washington Post asked in June for two years of White House visitor logs.The Secret Service refused to process the request, which governmentattorneys called ''a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details ofthe vice presidency.''
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901174_pf.html
Folier Than Thou
By Michael Kinsley
Friday, October 20, 2006; A21
Here in Washington, we're all competing to see who can be more po-facedabout Mark Foley and the congressional pages. Who can deplore Foley'sbehavior the most?
Democrats, sensing a deeply wounded Republican Party, are going in for thekill. It's the final evidence that the GOP is terminally corrupt: Acongressman was cyber-molesting teenage boys and his party leaders evidentlydidn't even care.
Republicans answer: Hey, we invented child molesting! As an issue, that is.We own family values, and we're not about to let the party of MonicaLewinsky and Heather Has Two Mommies outflank us on the sexual moralityfront.
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The New York Times
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/opinion/20krugman.html?pagewanted=print
October 20, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
Incentives for the Dead
By PAUL KRUGMAN
I don't know about you, but I need a break from political scandals. So let'stalk about private-sector scandals instead - specifically, the growingscandal involving backdated stock options, which this week led to theresignation of William McGuire, the chief executive of UnitedHealth Group.
To understand the issue, we need to go back to the original ideologicaljustification for giant executive paychecks.
In the 1960's and 1970's, C.E.O.'s of the largest firms were paid, onaverage, about 40 times as much as the average worker. But executives wantedmore - and professors at business schools provided a theory that justifiedmuch higher pay.
They argued that a chief executive who expects to receive the same salary ifhis company is highly profitable that he will receive if it just muddlesalong won't be willing to take risks and make hard decisions. "CorporateAmerica," declared an influential 1990 article by Michael Jensen of theHarvard Business School and Kevin Murphy of the University of Southern California, "pays its most important leaders like bureaucrats. Is it anywonder then that so many C.E.O.'s act like bureaucrats?"
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The New York Times
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/opinion/20friedman.html?pagewanted=print
October 20, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
Make History, Arnold!
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Governors don't often get a chance to make big-time history, but Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger of California has that opportunity now - if he's ready to getoff the fence. With one move, Governor Schwarzenegger could make CaliforniaAmerica's hub for developing "green" clean-power technologies - which aregoing to be the growth industry of the 21st century - and do something thatPresident Bush has only paid lip service to: really help to end America'soil addiction.
Do it, Arnold. C'mon, just do it.
Here's the basic story: This Nov. 7, Californians will be asked to vote yesor no on Proposition 87, a ballot initiative that would impose a higherextraction fee on oil pumped in California. (Up to now, oil companies inCalifornia have paid a very low extraction fee compared with those in otherstates - a rip-off they want to keep.)
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/business/20nyse.html?ei=5094&en=a6f93d391af0c6f5&hp=&ex=1161403200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
October 20, 2006
Ex-Stock Exchange Chief Told to Return Millions
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
A New York judge ruled yesterday that Richard A. Grasso, a former chairmanof the New York Stock Exchange, would have to return as much as $100 millionhe received as part of a fiercely contested $139.5 million payout.
The judge, Justice Charles E. Ramos of State Supreme Court in Manhattan,said that Mr. Grasso did not disclose to his fellow directors on the boardof the exchange the extent to which his soaring compensation had caused hispension and savings to balloon in size and that he violated his contract bywithdrawing $87 million before his retirement. Interest and money from aseparate retirement account would raise the total.
The ruling was not the judge's final word on the dispute - he did notdirectly address the central claim in the lawsuit brought by Eliot Spitzer,the New York attorney general, that Mr. Grasso's compensation was unreasonable under the state's not-for-profit law.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901274_pf.html
Material Mom
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, October 20, 2006; A21
It would be easy to ridicule Madonna for her "I'll take that one over there"adoption of a baby from an orphanage in Malawi. But it would be wrong.
No, really, it would be wrong.
Granted, the Material Girl makes it hard to take her side. For those whohaven't been following the story, Madonna has ostentatiously joined the rushof Beautiful People to the villages and shantytowns of Africa, where thereis a wealth of poverty and suffering to bemoan. She picked Malawi, a small,impoverished, AIDS-stricken nation in southern Africa and has pledged todonate $3 million for programs to help poor children.
While visiting Malawi last week, Madonna and her husband, British filmdirector Guy Ritchie, adopted a baby boy. The 13-month-old child, DavidBanda, was living in an orphanage but is not in fact an orphan -- his motherdied, and his father, Yohane Banda, felt he was too poor to take care ofhim.
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901572_pf.html
VP Bill? Depends on Meaning of 'Elected'
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 20, 2006; A19
The prospective presidential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton has givenrise to plenty of speculation about the notion of Bill Clinton as thenation's first gentleman. But what about another role? How about, say, vicepresident?
Politically, of course, the idea is a non-starter for all sorts of reasons.But that doesn't stop the parlor games, especially on the Internet. Theissue came up last week during a chat on washingtonpost.com: What if Hillarypicked Bill as her running mate? A Post reporter rashly dismissed the ideaas unconstitutional. But that only proved the dangers of uneditedjournalism. The answer, it turns out, is not so simple.
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The Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/15802912.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
How Bush might save face on Iraq
BY PETER S. CANELLOS
canellos@globe.com
The courtly former Secretary of State James A. Baker III has always beenless of a policymaker than a strategist -- an advisor to those in powerabout how to pursue their aims.
He has often played that role with the Bush family, with varying degrees ofcomfort. He was George H.W. Bush's tennis partner and political muse datingto the 1960s. But in 1992, after Bush called Baker out of the StateDepartment to oversee his faltering reelection campaign, the liberal writerSidney Blumenthal detected a ''mutual suspicion'' behind the friendship.
'Every morning Jim Baker looks in the mirror and says: `You'rebetter-looking than George Bush. You're smarter. Why aren't you president?''' said a GOP consultant quoted by Blumenthal.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/washington/20health.html?ex=1162008000&en=4c5210ab0e16cec1&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERFEATURES
October 20, 2006
Confident Democrats Draft Broad Health Care Agenda
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - Expecting to gain seats in Congress, Democrats aredrafting an ambitious health care agenda to carry out their campaignpromises with legislation to lower drug costs for older Americans, providemore money for children's health insurance and expand research usingembryonic stem cells.
Many Democrats in the House and the Senate say they want federal officialsto negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to obtain lower pricesfor Medicare beneficiaries. The 2003 Medicare law explicitly prohibits suchnegotiations.
Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, saidthat if Democrats were in control, they would try to repeal that ban in thefirst 100 hours after the House convenes.
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http://www.alternet.org/rights/43085/
Pentagon Monitoring Peace Activists' E-Mails
By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
Posted on October 19, 2006, Printed on October 19, 2006
More information keeps coming out, thanks to the ACLU, about the BushAdministration's equation of protest with terrorism -- and the snooping itthen engages in.
Homeland Security is monitoring peace groups and even peering at theire-mails. "This information is being provided only to alert commanders andstaff to potential terrorist activity or apprise them of other force protection issues."
It then shares that information with Joint Terrorism Task Forces, whichinclude the FBI and state and local law enforcement, as well as with thePentagon's notorious Talon (Threat and Local Observation Notice) program.
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Microsoft Releases Web Browser Update
POSTED: 10:30 am EDT October 19, 2006
REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft is upgrading its Web browser software.
The software giant hasn't done that in years and some observers believe theupdate comes amid signs that Internet Explorer's market share is eroding.
Released late Wednesday, the upgraded browser will compete with productssuch as Opera Software ASA's Opera and Mozilla Firefox.
Internet Explorer 7.0, or IE7, adds features such as tabbed browsing, whichlets people open several Web pages without cluttering their desktop withmultiple open browser windows.
A lag of more than five years between official releases has cost the companymarket share. One Web analysis firm estimates IE's share is about 86percent, down from 93 percent two years ago.
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Fearing Cuts, Army Pushes for More Money
InsideDefense.com NewsStand | Jason Sherman | October 12, 2006
Army weapon system acquisition accounts may be raided to finance a $2billion shortfall in other critical accounts in 2007, with money needed forsoldiers' paychecks, retention bonuses, health care services and otherballooning personnel costs, according to service officials.
Army leaders are hoping to limit such fiscal management practices in thefuture -- which officials say breeds instability that ultimately hurts thereadiness of the force and results in short-term contracts that erode theArmy's spending power -- with a significant boost from the White House toincrease the size of its fiscal year 2008 budget.
An FY-07 cut to the modernization accounts would be the second consecutiveyear the Army has siphoned substantial sums from procurement coffers to paypersonnel costs that were not properly priced in its budget submission;service officials began FY-06 by raiding acquisition accounts to pay $1.2billion in fixed personnel costs.
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Daily Queer News
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003311951_virginiamason19m.html
Life-or-death question, but debate was hidden for years
By Steve Miletich, Ken Armstrong and Justin Mayo
Seattle Times staff reporters
Five years ago in King County, an important and novel question loomed over awrongful-death lawsuit against Virginia Mason Medical Center:
If you're almost certain to inherit a deadly cancer but can cheat fate byhaving a healthy organ removed now, are doctors required to alert you to thelife-saving surgery?
In the Virginia Mason case, the family of a Bainbridge Island woman,described as a "walking time bomb" for cancer, argued that the answer isyes.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/18/85915/109
For full article go to link, above.
Blackwell Purged Ohio Voter Rolls Oct 1st-Vote Early
By KStreetProjector
Daily Kos
www.dailykos.com
Oct 18, 2006
A friend, in a position to be present at lunches of GOP insiders here in DCcalled me on Thursday, they know of my ongoing efforts to make hackablevoting end.
My friend was present as a group of Moderate GOP members with Ohio tieslamented how far the party had strayed. There was consensus at the tablethere was no way they should retain control. The table conversation beganwith the assumption they party would lose control in this election. Themoderates started planning how to take back control of the GOP from theextremists.
Then, one insider, probably an extremist, but certainly very close to Mr.Ken Mehlman abruptly stopped the conversation. He told table that it wasimpossible they would lose either house. He also predicts an Ohio GOP sweep.
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2006-10-18-end-of-life-costs_x.htm
Debate surrounds end-of-life health care costs
By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY
Updated 10/19/2006 3:55 AM ET
By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY
If you are dying in Miami, the last six months of your life might well looklike this: You'll see doctors, mostly specialists, 46 times; spend more thansix days in an intensive care unit and stand a 27% chance of dying in ahospital ICU. The tab for your doctor and hospital care will run just over$23,000.
But spend those last six months in Portland, Ore., and you'll go to thedoctor 18 times, half of those visits with your primary care doctor, spendone day in intensive care and stand a 13% chance of dying in an ICU. You'lllikely die at home, with the support of a hospice program. Total tab: slightly more than $14,000.
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http://www.statesman.com/search/content/editorial/stories/10/19/19farmer_edit.html9httpFarmer
Evangelicals' faith in White House misplaced
John Farmer,
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICEThursday,
October 19, 2006
'Never give a sucker an even break," W.C. Fields, the comical con man ofsomany old films, was famous for saying. He'd be right at home in theBushWhite House.For we now have it on fairly good authority that the Bush team, led byKarlRove, exploited the gullibility of Christian evangelicals tofurtherRepublican political ambitions while privately scorning them as"nuts" or"ridiculous" or "boorish" or worse.They mocked and laughed at their Christian shock troops, which is shabbilycynical but understandable.It must be hard for experienced con artists tofeel anything but contemptfor the suckers, or the marks as they're known onthe street. Indeed, evenonlookers feel little sympathy for marks, many ofwhom, maybe most, getscammed because they're promised something theyshouldn't ha ve in the firstplace.
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Mass. elementary school bans tag
October 19, 2006
The Associated PressATTLEBORO, Mass. -
Tag, you're out!
Officials at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro have bannedplayground tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chasing games overconcerns about the risk of injury and liability for the school."It's a time when accidents can happen," Principal Gaylene Heppe said.Heppe included the new rule as part of a standardized set of playgroundrules.While no district-wide policies banning contact sports at recess appear tohave been put in place locally, many principals are making up new rules inan atmosphere reflecting society's increasingly cautious and litigiousnature.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003311889&slug=gays19&date=20061019
Immigrant groups fear dual-citizenship reviewPETTI FONG
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER - A number of Canadian immigrant groups say fear is building in their communities over whether a federal review of dual citizenship willlead to people having to choose which passport to keep.They say Canadians with dual citizenship will face excruciating personaldecisions if the government revokes the practice."I think the majority of the members of our community are very concerned,"said Svetlana Litvin, a leader with the Russian-speaking community inMontreal.Some of these members are business owners who travel back and forth fromCanada to Russia and neighbouring countries, said Ms. Litvin, director ofprojects for the Russian-speaking community reference centre in Montreal.The organization represents about 55,000 Quebeckers originally from 15former Soviet bloc countries.
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The MiamiHerald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15790754.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Republicans uncover campaign playbook of Senate DemocratsRYAN J. FOLEYAssociated PressMADISON, Wis. - Republicans obtained a copy of strategic campaign plans forSenate Democrats four months ago and released them Wednesday as they accusedtheir rivals of illegal campaigning.Republicans said a Capitol aide discovered the State SenateDemocraticCommittee's playbook on a copy machine in the Capitol in June.
But Democratssaid the documents were apparently stolen from a state Sen.'spersonalbelongings.One of the documents was a memo marked confidential dated May 23 andprepared by SSDC director Matt Swentkofske. It outlines strategy for thecampaign in which Democrats are trying to pick up three seats to win backcontrol of the Senate, currently controlled 19-14 by Republicans.
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