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...that lesson with everyone." Zhou now donates a chunk of his earnings to build new Tibetan Buddhist temples in western China, and has imparted the Buddha's teachings to his business partners. Tempering a capitalist impulse with a quest for inner peace jibes with the Chinese government's own shift from a development model based mainly on high GDP-growth rates to one in which overall quality of life is also taken into consideration...
...absence of anything approximating a mass influx, decides to transfer elsewhere the responsibility to handle claims made actually on the territory of the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province, the policy shift has brought accusations of appeasement. But it's also raised questions about Australia's commitment to the U.N.'s 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees...
...know that I will not like it 20 years from now when I'm 68 and having to be taken care of by these guys," says Dr. Paul Shekelle, a professor of medicine at UCLA. "It's all shift work now. When 5 o'clock comes, whatever it is they're doing, they just sign it all out to the 5 o'clock person. It's eroding the sense of duty, or commitment to being the person responsible for a patient's care...
...first glance, the latest bill to modify how the Undergraduate Council (UC) awards grants seems like little more than a technical shift. Currently, groups of students qualify for funding only if they comply with the UC’s strict nondiscrimination code. Under the new proposal, however, a group could also receive funding if Harvard College’s Committee on College Life (CCL) recognizes it as an official student group, regardless of whether the group meets the UC’s nondiscrimination policies. In both the current and proposed frameworks, the event or project for which a student organization...
More than four months after the election, a shift in the position of incumbent prime minister may finally open the way for the creation of a new Iraqi government. But expectations that the formation of such a government will do much to reverse the country's sectarian drift are diminishing...