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...Kennedy School offers two main programs. The traditional one-year Masters of Public Administration (MPA) provides a flexible curriculum for those in mid-career. The Masters of Public Policy (MPP) is a two-year program, with a rigid first-year curriculum oriented towards recent college graduates. Advanced degrees, three-week seminars and programs for foreign students are some of the offerings the school expects will extend its influence. In the midst of a $20 million fundraising drive, the school also plans to open five new research centers in addition to the one it opened last year...
...loyalty immediately injected into the affair questions about the President's own judgment and his moral standing with the public. Carter had pledged to avoid even the appearance of impropriety among his appointees. Now he had opened himself to the charge that he was willing to bend his rigid rules to save a close friend...
...their offhand approach to this rather rigid form, the commissaris books most closely resemble the mysteries of Nico las Freeling. But Van de Wetering's inspiration was the late Robert van Gulik, a mystery writer and Oriental scholar who was once the Dutch Ambassador to Japan. He appears briefly in The Japanese Corpse - as a helpful ambassador...
...aimed at longtime welfare mothers, ex-drug addicts and ex-convicts in 13 cities. Started in New York City in 1972, the program caught on in such cities as Atlanta and Oakland, Calif., and now enrolls 3,000 workers nationwide. It provides employment at about the minimum wage under rigid job discipline. After a year or so, managers help participants find private jobs...
...workers in slack periods, mandate extensive and expensive fringe benefits and tie official factory wages to soaring prices; unionized workers further stage incessant strikes and have horrendous rates of absenteeism. In a sense, the clandestine workers and their employers are reintroducing really free enterprise into a rigid system...