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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
B-school
enlarges MBA class By
KEVIN LEES
The Chronicle
An
of the business
expansion
school’s
master’s of business administration class is
padding
a
down year for applications
to the school’s
higher-end
programs.
Douglas Breeden, dean of the Fuqua School of Business,
that the deci-
said
sion
to
add
65
to
the
students
MBA
daytime
has
program
worked out well ROMEO GACAD/AFP
and
that
school
the
has
not
AMERICANTROOPS park their M1 Abrams tank outside
day.
lowered its stan-
Allied forces took control of three
one
of
President Saddam Hussein’s
Iraqi
in the
presidential palaces
Baghdad
in
area
an
effort to
palaces
secure
the
the
near
International Airport Mon-
Baghdad
city.
dards for admission.
He
that
the
move
helped
bal-
has
Douglas Breeden
ance
decline
in
applications
added
U.S. aims for Saddam in
to the
school’s
from
what
Breeden
students
102
this
estimated
year
a
class of about 75 next year.
“We’re those
seeing
decline
a
applications,”
some
kind of
because
it’s
insulated
hurting from the decline tive MBA
us
sec-
from
in the Execu-
program.” financial
the
Specifically,
forces in
shock
of
lower applications to the Global Execu-
CITY
on
page 7
military
Iraq dropped four bombs late in
an
to kill
attempt
Saddam
and
Military cials
said
pound,
national
guided
what one official called “a huge smoking
hole,” but
it
inside at
the time
was
injured
was
or
telligence
still unclear who or
whether
was
report
that
one
on an
in-
said
official
Saddam in
But other
cautious,
were
gather
to
family
would
one
allow
night
in
The
passed
Monday
into
settled
the
Palace in the center of their
plan
U.S.
Air
tugs
and
pulls
a
complexity
like
Duke Clinical
of
medical
unprecedented
crobiology, of the
Inside IllolUC
A
panel
across
rent
of
the
professors globe
reparations
and
discussed the
compared
history
of
reparations
these instances to the
cur-
debate in the United States. See page 3
The Durham a
new
City
zoning
See page 3
Council
district
of molecular
more
approved
covering
and
Institute
Policy
and
an
genetics
of
new
chairs.
made up of two
fields
its focus?
keep
to form
structure
a
research
centers,
within
faculty
si-
research
concentrating
the
re-
and
genetics
department, which Nevins Instead
the
of
symbolizing
a
department has only foris
occurring everywhere
in the Medical Center, Nevins said. At
the
same
Medicine’s are
courses
a
time,
School
the
curriculum
planned dissolving
and
of
revi-
integrating
traditionally divided along de-
partment
merger
problem:
serious
a
lines.
departmental
“[Education!
now
structure,”
is in
said
Dr.
genetics and micro-
ordinance and
page 6
formed molecular
microbiology
sions
and mi-
contemplating the
four
was
dispersing
now
the
James B. Duke
than two years ago, for
colleges
around
malized what
for
cleanly divided by discipline.
was
answer
revolution,
Research Institute—that
departments
biology
the
Joseph Nevins,
professor
The
and
dras-
collaboration—increasingly
Genome Sciences
When
on
department
previously disparate
cently
forcing
a
multaneously
to research-
under the official stamp of University-
cannot be
See IRAQ
care,
within the Medical Center
centers
the
Burridge,
Brian
How could
focused centers and undergoing
wide
the
unsuc-
prevent widespread looting.
ample, he anticipated
is
that
through
departments
tic shift in purpose.
amounts of
to
Marshal
The Chronicle
The growing
residents
patrol
to define mission
quietly ceding territory
research
incident
MIKE MILLER
to the varied
departments
where
Basra,”
without
attacks
of research demands and patient
are
in
Baghdad, saying
struggle Adapting
under
longer
no
300-man British
a
cessfully
Med Center
By
finished
walked
Republican
conduct
to
was
was
markets of the old city and tried
Monday,
Baghdad
central
second-
Iraq’s
The British commander in the Persian
cheered
was
Command in Qatar,
to Central
that
reported
Gulf declared that “the Baathist regime is
information
British
government. Monday,
the control of the Iraqi government.
Washington. intelligence
for members of
searching
largest city, Basra,
which authorized the strike. In
forces
defenders and min-
city’s
while
istries
the Iraqi
won-
place.
said
official
military
a
the
against
fashionable suburban area of the
a
city,
troops
made based
they
meeting.
The strike took place in Mansour dis-
anyone
killed.
was
the
had left
bombs
said
whether
dering
trict, offi-
security
that the four two-thousand
satellite
would be at the
officials
officials said in
Washington Monday night.
The strike See FUQUA
US.
Hussein, administration
good
about bringing in an extra daytime
tion,
of
said.
Breeden
“Frankly, we’re all feeling
KUWAIT
Monday in
indicated that both Saddam and his two
York Times News Service sons
to
would be
PATRICK TYLER
By New
Global Executive MBA program, which went
Baghdad
sharper
a
creating
universities.
See DEPARTMENTS
ex-
The more
Institute for Care at the End than 100 candidates for its
doctors,
nurses
and
theologians.
of
on
page 7
Life
has identified
director spot, See page 4
including