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...current board will remain in non-executive roles after the takeover and be joined by MyFC representatives to implement the decisions from the voting members. Manager, former Republic of Ireland international Liam Daish, will be retitled head coach and be required to feed back information on training and tactical suggestions to members via a blog. Daish backs the plan, and as Brooks points out, "Liam has never paid any money for a player before, now he might be able to buy one." Former player now BBC pundit Garth Crooks applauds the concept of fan-ownership but is wary of supporters...
...comment.While these changes are improvements, however small, the present reinvention of the course evaluation system is a missed opportunity to make more meaningful alterations to the culture of feedback and pedagogical improvement at Harvard. Specifically, the reforms fail to address incomplete participation by both students and faculty, which remain the CUE’s Achilles heel. Evaluations mean little when they do not include a full sample of students enrolled in a course. For course-shoppers, this often creates a skewed perception of a class’s quality. For faculty and teaching fellows, this means that feedback is incomplete...
...grow apace and attracts huge amounts of foreign direct investment--an eye-popping $53.5 billion last year. For months now, American economists and politicians have been fretting publicly over whether China is overheating, whether it is the next Asian meltdown-in-waiting and how long its currency can remain so blatantly undervalued against the dollar...
...Manassas, Zplug recently added Internet phone service to its offerings (charging $30 for unlimited local and long-distance calls), but officials have enough to be worried about these days just getting customers hooked up with Web access. Fewer than 200 accounts have been activated, while 1,350 locals remain on a waiting list, in part because of start-up problems with Prospect Street Broadband, a venture firm selected to handle Zplug's day-to-day operations, and in part because utility workers are still installing the network. City officials expect to name a new investor sometime...
...unattended. In some institutions, disabled children were denied surgery because the doctors believed that they would die anyway, the report said. The institutions are understaffed and often lack basic facilities; many patients, both children and adults, are kept restrained for months, even years. Once committed, they are likely to remain in "special institutions" for life...