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...Students believe what they are doing now will matter in the future and that they are building their careers. In many cases, this is not an inaccurate belief. The cost of this attitude, however, is something we all perceive: the loss of community. Rather than being engaged in a four-year utopian community, students simultaneously look inward, towards studies and the necessity of personal academic achievement, and forward, towards the prosperous futures ensured by that achievement. Consequently, Harvard ceases to function as a socially interactive organism and fragments into individuals and groups of students united by similar ambitions. The immediate...
...vehicle at Irritek, a company that makes and supplies agricultural irrigation equipment. General manager James von Drehnen is committed to the AES. "Real jobs move a community forward," he says on a break from the busy factory floor. "Getting youngsters through the door, who will give you a four-year commitment for an apprenticeship, is the hard part." Von Drehnen says the AES can be too soft on its placements, delivering their lunch or driving them to work - generally making life too easy for them. He looks to senior men such as Nigel Swan and Lyndon "Charlie" Briggs...
...million Value of outfielder Hideki Matsui's new four-year contract with the New York Yankees, making him the highest-paid Japanese baseball player in the major leagues
Mahinda Rajapakse's win, with 50.3% of the vote, in Sri Lanka's presidential election last Friday could determine whether the strife-ridden country sinks deeper into conflict. The signs are not good: a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is under severe strain, with internal conflict in the rebel-controlled east and political killings blamed on the Tigers in the Sinhalese south. Rajapakse, 60, who says the peace process has been too soft on the Tigers, proposes ripping up the agreement and starting talks from scratch. Sri Lanka's stock market plunged...
...Salem, Massachusetts, native was a four-year starter at Salem High School. Groszyk was a three-time conference all-star and was conference player of the year his senior year...