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...Though detractors of the ideas contained in the report state that students’ tendencies to separate academics from extracurriculars is “a boon not a burden,” others believe that mixing the two encourages a unique and effective way to learn...
...Done right, the new labor flexibility could have been a boon for Japanese workers as well as companies. While lifetime corporate employment might be secure - especially compared to the unstable lot of workers in the U.S. - in practice it can feel like a straitjacket. Employees in Japan are often still paid by seniority, not by performance, and switching companies in mid-career can mean career suicide. Part-timers have the potential to pick their jobs, be rewarded for skills rather than seniority and be spared the 90-hour workweeks that drive many salarymen to an early grave. In Haken, Haruko...
...that the Presidential Search Committee sought out scientists and that expansion in the sciences is at the top of the Corporation’s agenda. Although Faust is known to be particularly science-savvy for a historian, Hyman’s presence in Mass. Hall will be a great boon to Faust’s early tenure. Hyman’s expertise on efforts to expand interdisciplinary science initiatives will also be valuable for Faust. From his appointment to lead the newly-created Mind, Brain, and Behavior program at Harvard in 1994 to his close involvement with the University Planning...
...approval rating at 56%. That's because Cofferati's get-tough approach is coupled with a progressive policy toward legal immigrants. For its foreign residents, the city provides housing assistance, Italian-language courses, psychological counseling and walk-in help desks in native languages for bureaucratic questions. But the greatest boon to new arrivals is plentiful work - Bologna's 2.6% unemployment rate is among Italy's lowest...
Instead, the College should continue its policy of salutary neglect toward extracurricular activities and recognize that the “tendency on the part of many students to regard their extracurricular life as separate from their academic experience” is in fact a boon, not a burden...