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...same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, his eyes were running in reaction to pungent tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, Diakite and his fellow students felt a budding sense of empowerment. Up to half a million young people had gone, some riotously, to the streets throughout France on Thursday. Then, joined by union members and sympathizers, as many as 1.5 million participated in marches on Saturday, some of which...
...weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, Diakite was choking in air pungent with tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, he and his fellow students felt a budding--and maybe false--sense of empowerment. Could half a million young people in the streets throughout France bring an embattled government to its knees...
Here's why: many of the companies that already spend big bucks to recruit and train talented employees are bracing for even stiffer competition as baby boomers start to retire amid a shortage of skilled labor. Teaching execs to be on the lookout for microinequities--a term that has bounced around academia since a professor at M.I.T. coined it in 1973--is a cheap way to hold on to hard-won recruits. After all, says Andrea Bernstein, diversity chair at the New York City-- based white-shoe law firm Weil Gotshal, "you never know, when somebody leaves, if she would...
...long ago, amid much fanfare, Summers announced that Harvard would no longer require low-income parents to contribute to college costs. What did not get reported was that low-income students must still borrow sums nearly as large as before. The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative costs the University less than $2 million per year, or six weeks’ pay for one fund manager...
...generators, heating oil and chainsaws. A sales rep at a small farm shop at the edge of town said some 20 generators and 35 chain saws were sold Monday as the cleanup began. Hotels and motels were at capacity, as were Red Cross shelters as families sought refuge amid reports that power could be out to some 10,000 for as long as three days...