11.   Redbook magazine now ranks the school as one of the best in the country.

12.   The magazine had previously ranked the four-cylinder Passat above comparable models.

13.   The magazine ranks only French wine and is tough.

14.   When Fortune magazine ranked the most powerful women in American business last fall, Ms. Fiorina, then a senior executive at Lucent Technologies, ranked first.

15.   Fortune magazine has ranked it as one of the great hotels in the world, alongside the Ritz in Paris, Connaught in London and Grand Hotel in Rome.

16.   National magazines have repeatedly ranked SAS Institute Inc. high on lists of best companies to work for.