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...shows have long since been institutionalized as a free-fire zone on politicians, where ridicule is relentless and labels harden into epitaphs. On the first strike-era Daily Show, on Jan. 7, Jon Stewart bemoaned the agony of watching Mike Huckabee give a victory speech in Iowa with action star Chuck Norris--"Chuck Norris!"--looking over the candidate's shoulder, yet having nowhere to do a Chuck-and-Huck gag the next night...
...secondary schools do not buckle under that pressure. We also hope that applicants will be honest, so that it does not come down to the high school’s disclosure of disciplinary infractions to expose a disciplinary issue. Finally, we do not believe the threat of legal action against secondary schools that withhold information is a wise option. Moral and practical pressures should be sufficient, and taking admissions decisions to court—which McGrath Lewis suggested may be a possibility to the newspaper Greenwich Time—would set a bad precedent. When a secondary school withholds disciplinary...
...role as the lead underwriter for the Shanghai listing of PetroChina, a subsidiary of the state-run China National Petroleum Company (CNPC). CNPC is a business partner of the Sudanese government.UBS has defended itself by arguing that PetroChina itself has no operations in Sudan.Still, members of the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) have been present at several UBS recruiting events this fall, including one in mid-November, handing out fliers detailing the alleged relationship between UBS and PetroChina. The first e-recruiting deadline for students applying for summer internships is today.“I think that students don?...
...Psychology 1, “Introduction to Psychology” and History 20a, “Western Intellectual History.” Expanding the list of accepted departmental courses is, in fact, another goal to be phased in as part of the new Gen Ed program. Without quick action, though, room for breadth in course selection is just another benefit that current students will not be around...
...have always been somebody who was other-directed and pretty much just decided that people would judge me by what I did. I have never thought that what I said was anywhere near as important as what I did. I think there is a distinct difference between talk and action and maybe it is because I have been in these trenches for a long time and the people I value are the doers. When I got to the Senate I said I was a workhorse, not a showhorse, and set out to prove it. So what I have been realizing...