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...Nobody comes inside and checks our things. We check them ourselves." General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President, rejecting the U.N.'s request to supervise Pakistan's nuclear program...
Meanwhile, an over-reliance on spokespeople and a skittishness about releasing even non-controversial information has made it seem like the administration is trying to control information for the sake of control alone. Even the simplest requests, ones that used to be easily and efficiently handled by relevant administrators, are frequently snatched up by communications officers who place them in what we must imagine to be a very large waste-paper basket—for we rarely see any satisfactory response. Last spring, a simple request for a list of tenure appointments over the 2002-2003 academic year, made several...
Currently, Sodhexo performs background checks on non-management level employees only by request of the subcontractor, according to Merry Touborg, spokesperson for Harvard’s Office of Human Resources...
...Surely the first SARS outbreak should have taught the Chinese to modify their eating habits. Severe penalties should be imposed on restaurants still serving civet. The thought of thousands of these pretty creatures being slaughtered is extremely distressing. Can't we call upon organizations concerned with animal welfare to request a release into the wild of civets and the complete ban on their capture and use as food? The survival of mankind depends on the intelligent modification of human behavior, which is the only solution to reducing aids and SARS. Elizabeth Davies Manila...
Last November Campbell and his colleagues got their answer. The Labor Department rejected their request, saying "the performance of services does not constitute production of an article," as required by law. In short, if you work in a factory and lose your job to imports, you get help. If you are in a service industry and your job is moved abroad, you don't qualify. They lost the game...