Word: barbarae
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...trade embargo against Havana and to bar U.S. citizens from traveling to Cuba when the U.S. gleefully does business with regimes like China, whose human-rights violations are more egregious than Cuba's. At the same time, it's curious at best that embargo foes like California Representative Barbara Lee, who led a congressional delegation to Havana last week that met with President Raúl Castro and his brother Fidel, rarely mention Cuba's jailed dissidents but will, as Lee has, blast China for "repression against the Tibetan people." (Read a brief history of Cuba-U.S. relations...
...When the secretary in the photo-illustration for Barbara Kiviat's insightful article on jobs says, "I invested in my work skills," she hits the key right on the typewriter. Knowledge and skills - the stuff jobs are made of, no matter the economy - are our most valuable assets. Kiviat's article reminds us all to keep our knowledge current and our skills marketable for our jobs of both today and tomorrow. Dustin Weiderman, Rochester...
...Susan R. Suleiman, chair of the literature and comparative literature department, said that the retirement of the literature concentration’s administrator, Barbara J. Akiba, will make up a “decent chunk” of the 15 percent budget cut that the FAS administration has requested of all departments...
...fact that Barbara has retired is a sort of gift to the department,” she said, adding that it has helped the small department avoid having to make any “slash-and-burn decisions...
...Signature update! "Dean of Harvard College" now precedes "Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies" to reflect the shift in my priorities...