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Ginger had a three-year contract as an assistant professor that he was forced to abandon, but there is still no known case in which a tenured professor was forced to resign...
...could get $1.40 per kilo now earn only 40 cents. That doesn't cover production costs. Y Dien, born into the Ede tribe 40 years ago, lives in Ea Brieng, a dusty Dak Lak village. In the hope of finding a better future, he followed government orders to abandon communal living 10 years ago and began growing coffee. Within a few years he was able to buy a television and Vietnam's ultimate status symbol?a Honda motorbike. But these days his extended family of 14 is struggling. Still, he doesn't blame the Kinh settlers to whom he sells...
...page decision released last Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman said that the U-M law school should abandon its current admissions policy, which aims toward achieving a "critical mass" of minority students, and instead strive for "race-neutral" admissions...
...carbon-dioxide emissions. The interagency group that met at the White House two weeks ago was deeply divided. Whitman's EPA wanted to stand by the campaign promise. The State and Treasury departments wanted to finesse the issue by deferring action. And political director Ken Mehlman wanted to abandon the promise, calling it a liability in states like coal-rich West Virginia, which Bush won last year after decades of Democratic dominance. All three options were presented to Bush...
...apparent Bush policy to abandon our efforts to improve North Korean relations is one that is misguided and will only serve to exacerbate tensions on an already nervous peninsula. It will also bring grave dangers for the North Korean people, who have endured a series of deadly famines because of the policies of their dictatorial government and their limited access to the outside world...