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...refereeing effort on the part of the U.S. - exactly the scenario the Bush administration had hoped to avoid when it came into office vowing not to repeat Bill Clinton's mistakes and insisting that the U.S. could not impose peace when the parties were unwilling. The Middle East is seldom that simple...
...composition of the committee, chaired by Professor of Economics Lawrence Katz, is another positive outcome of the sit-in. By including student representatives on the committee as full members, Harvard recognized that students have an important role to play in issues relating to the University as a whole. Harvard seldom grants students any formal role in its decision-making, and we hope that this committee will be one of many future opportunities for students to contribute to University policies. Harvard was also wise to select the student representatives through the undergraduate and graduate governing bodies, as well as to heed...
When he isn’t accompanying Japanese businessmen on jaunts through Northeastern lumberyards, acting as their American liaison and interpreter, Egashira takes what money he has made and heads off to the seldom traveled sectors of the globe. He has successfully completed a 100-mile solo hike in the Rocky Mountains, a trip to the Arctic and one to Greenland...
...everything was ideal, and trouble was coming. Though Staci was more confident, she seldom brought home much schoolwork. Instead, she complained of unruly classes and bus rides. Then the school business got in the way of education. Paramount had to cut staff and stop ordering new school supplies. In February the school lost its music teacher in a salary dispute and suddenly switched to a much cheaper, 4-H agriculture curriculum. Staci would have to drop her singing ambitions and cultivate seedlings. "Paramount was attractive to me because of the choice," says Roan, who is enrolling her daughter in another...
...mystery is why employers are so addicted to these pre-employment tests. Drug tests seldom detect anything but the most innocuous of illegal drugs, usually marijuana; and personality tests only measure some combination of literacy and hypocrisy, not your ability to get the job done. Maybe the real function of the tests is not to convey information to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information being conveyed is, You will have no secrets from us. We don't just want your time and your effort, we want your entire self...