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...plan—which covers staff over 55 who have worked at the University for over 10 years—will be implemented in two phases. The first is aimed at non-faculty employees at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical and Dental Schools, Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann wrote in an e-mail to all staff yesterday. The second phase, coming in March, will consist of identical programs at the University’s other schools...
...high needs.” However, the report also notes that there are a number of areas in which Massachusetts can make significant improvements. These areas include making tenure decisions meaningful, setting clear penalties for teachers with unsatisfactory evaluations, and ensuring a fair pension system. Sandi Jacobs, vice president for policy at the National Council on Teacher Quality, said the study was conducted because state policy has a real impact on teacher quality and student achievement. “A lot of policies are more harmful to teacher quality than they are helpful,” she said. Jacobs said...
...Some policymakers, activists and scholars say these are crimes of opportunity - and that the law may be helping to create that opportunity. Prostitution is a shadow profession in Hong Kong. It is technically legal, but traditional brothels are classified as illegal "vice establishments." Landlords who rent a single premise to more than one sex worker can face jail time. This means sex workers are forced to operate mainly as one-woman businesses out of their homes. There are approximately 1,600 one-woman brothels in Hong Kong, according to the Hong Kong police. Operating in isolation and without protection, these...
...well as the prevailing moral values of the community," a police spokesman stated in an e-mail. "The police aim to prevent the exploitation of women and girls for the purposes of prostitution, to combat organized prostitution activities and to lessen the nuisance to members of the public that 'vice activities' may cause." A more pressing goal, however, is to catch the men who are killing Hong Kong's prostitutes...
...year-old mother in a black chador watching the parade with her handsome 22-year-old son said she was there to show her appreciation for the revolution "because back then, we didn't have any freedom, and moral vice was widespread." The son chipped in, "I would say, I don't know about freedom, 'cause I wasn't there, but vice was probably just more on the surface back then, whereas now, it is under the city's skin...