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...felt alienated throughout her Radcliffe years as she struggled to accept the rigid rules of the college—and to live in a social sphere that did not approve of homosexuality. Watkins had realized she was gay during her first year at Radcliffe when she fell in love with a fellow classmate, but concealed her sexual identity throughout college...
...Raphaely, have had to swallow outright pay cuts. Others have lost their jobs and, in the tough labor market of today, have had to settle for new ones at less pay. Still others--including employees at such giants as AT&T, Boise Cascade and Starwood Hotels--have had to accept pay freezes that, when rising prices are factored in, amount to reduced compensation. To add insult to injury, companies everywhere are reducing bonuses and overtime and eroding health and pension benefits...
...think (the military) has any new strategy at all," he says. "They always go back to force, force and more force." So what will the t.n.i. regard as proof that it has secured victory in Aceh? The extermination of GAM? Not at all, insists General Sudi. If GAM rebels accept that Aceh is a part of Indonesia, then "we won't kill them all," he says. And if victory isn't secured before martial law expires six months from now? Then, says Sudi, "we'll just renew it"?as many times as it takes...
...Bottom Line Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots, and its tendency to excess. CONRAD BLACK, CEO of Hollinger International, after irate shareholders forced him to accept a $6 million salary cap and reduce his control of the company
...beleaguered final clubs and other social organizations for their excessive use of alcohol and for providing a generally unsafe place to party. Alcohol is, in the words of incoming Dean Gross, a “gigantic” problem. Yet the College has an opportunity, if it chooses to accept it, to create more safe and friendly party spaces so that students do not need to trek to the clubs...