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...What else are U.S. forces doing over there? Ground operations by American troops have been kept to a minimum, largely to minimize U.S. casualties. But New Year's Day saw the biggest American ground operation so far. A convoy carried 200 Marines from their base at Kandahar airport to a deserted al-Qaeda training camp in southern Afghanistan. With the Marines providing cover, Afghan fighters rifled through the compound's 14 structures, which were believed to have provided shelter for Mullah Omar some time in the past three weeks. Thirty hours later the Marines returned to base, though not with...
...system now stands, each department is almost entirely autonomous in the way it provides concentration advising. It is clear that this decentralized system creates large disparities between departments, to students’ severe disadvantage. Minimum College-wide standards for advising are necessary. An increase in communication between departments could also be beneficial, so that what is working in the chemistry department, for example, could be employed to help students in government...
...almost half of the committee—eight of 19 total members—submitted statements that call for a “backstop” wage, a minimum wage floor similar to a living wage...
Creating a wage floor by adopting a living wage, Katz said, would encourage subcontractors to merely pay the minimum...
...penalize the territory's poorest workers in hard times? Some Hong Kongers are arguing that it does, and that during this economic downturn, the city's estimated 230,000 imported maids should be taking a pay cut. Partly in response to those demands, the government is reviewing the minimum wage for domestic helpers, currently $471 a month, and considering a proposal to lower that salary by up to 20%. The decision won't be made until early February, but the portents are not good?a similar review in 1999 resulted in a 5% cut. Deputy Secretary of Education and Manpower...