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...majority of employers, who do not use recruiting as a preferred method of hiring, OCS offers a range of alternatives. We have recently begun using Jobtrak, a service which lists job openings in many fields open to Harvard students...
...wide consensus among economists that the CPI overstates the actual rise in the cost of living. The reasons are complicated, but one, called the "substitution effect," is easily grasped. For example, when beef prices rise, people often switch to cheaper meats like chicken, a consumer choice that the current method of figuring the CPI doesn't catch...
...endanger the lives of human beings. The sport of bear hunting has not killed off the species. On the contrary, bear-population levels in Michigan are at an all-time high. Bears are extremely clever animals and are not easily hunted, even with bait and dogs, the best feasible method. Licenses to kill these animals are not given freely either; very few hunters actually receive such licenses. The bear population needs to be controlled for the safety of all people. Let's put humans first. MICHAEL YONKMAN Boon, Michigan Via E-mail...
...sensitive cases--could be resolved by moving cases within certain narrow and carefully-defined general areas (e.g., sexual assault) into private session. In general, though, students should be treated as adults and held accountable for their actions; paternalism with respect to disciplinary matters is not an effective teaching method in a college community...
...just luck or that he voted for the right candidate for the wrong reasons. But my father votes in the majority for the same reason the majority does: he likes the winner better. "I vote for the best man regardless of the party," says my old man. His method is not scientific. He may watch a debate--and zip around the dial during the lulls. He doesn't really vote his pocketbook, at least not in a what's-in-it-for-me way. "I want someone who I think is talking to me," he says...