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...home to thousands of acres of coca being fought over by rebels and newly formed militias. In February, guerrillas massacred 17 Awa Indians, provoking hundreds to abandon their homes. On Wednesday, masked gunmen killed 12 more Awa, including a six-month old baby, and officials fear another exodus. "In Nariño, as in many parts of Colombia, the conflict rages on and abuses are rampant," says José Miguel Vivanco, Americas Director at Human Rights Watch. "Instead of pretending the conflict doesn't exist, the national government needs to do much more to protect civilians...
...years, families have been making a mass exodus from cities to the contentment of suburbia. In Reloville, Peter T. Kilborn focuses on a more recent phenomenon: work-imperative relocation. "Relos" must contend with an ultra-competitive job market, now made worse by recession, that drags them and their families from town to town. Kilborn examines the price families pay in Relovilles as they try to maintain a bit of consistency in their lives and concludes that the trend isn't so much good or bad as just rather...
...believe that students' out-of-class experiences engender creativity, fellowship, and 'learning by doing,'" wrote Nelson in an e-mailed statement on Friday. Hammonds, who emphasized that Nelson had extensive experience with both residential life and student activities, noted that Nelson had previously worked at Cornell and Syracuse Universities.The exodus of deans has raised questions in recent months about how the College intends to preserve the years of administrative experience accumulated by the three departing officials. Herschbach, an almost 30-year veteran of Harvard as well as a specialist in budgetary matters, served as a House Master, FAS Registrar...
Seidner, who was the company's second-highest paid official in 2008 with $6.3 million in compensation, was hired in 2006 after an exodus of investment managers left HMC with a substantial vacuum in its bond division. Former bond managers Maurice Samuels and David R. Mittelman, who earned $25.3 million and $25.4 million respectively in 2004, left the company with legendary HMC CEO Jack R. Meyer in 2005 to form a private hedge fund, Convexity Capital Management, after enduring repeated public criticism for what some considered to be exorbitant...
...number of the best scholars and the best students. But it does not automatically give rise to the liveliest dialogues among colleagues or the greatest global concern for fairness and justice. These desiderata require an additional collective effort, out of which the current University presidency was borne. However, the exodus of faculty-members of color that began during the Summers administration has actually accelerated this year. As observed even by departing professor and dean Lisa L. Martin, who is white, the current Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not appear to be committed to hiring or maintaining...