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...posters advertising exhibitions and events at the museums appear on the bulletin boards and table tents across campus, which frequently announce the latest a cappella jam or Loeb production. Museum administrators can wish all day for student turnout and still not see the kind of numbers that the better advertised arts events on campus enjoy...
...that Summers has stumbled onto the problem, his university could lead the way out. Just listening to some of its own graduates would be a good start. Joan Williams, head of the Program on WorkLife Law at American University, wrote in a Harvard Law School alumni bulletin, "Defining your 'ideal worker' as someone who works 60 hours a week is not good business. You are choosing whom to keep based on the schedule they can keep, not based on the quality of their work." Some solutions to this aren't exactly new ideas: flextime, for example, and restructuring career tracks...
...dangerous mines to reopen illegally. Independent worker organizations are banned and China's official trade union is closely tied to the government, leaving miners with few outlets to press for reforms. "You cannot have mine safety without a strong union," says Robin Munro, research director of the China Labour Bulletin, based in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, mine owners who do double-duty as government-workplace safety inspectors cause a "serious conflict of interest" in enforcing existing regulations, according to Stephen Frost, a research fellow at the City University of Hong Kong. "Until the central government is able to separate the regulatory...
...p.m.A lass with feathery hair leans against an empty bulletin board, gazing forlornly at the bleak beer line. Corker sidles up to her. They talk. They part...
...outdone himself this year. Days before his 63rd birthday this week, his government announced that, as has long been suspected by U.S. intelligence, North Korea has indeed built nuclear weapons "for self-defense." Though the bulletin ended years of speculation about the general state of Kim's nuclear-weapons program, the declaration was actually two blows in one: Pyongyang also announced it was pulling out of joint talks with the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea to keep the Korean peninsula nuclear-free. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, hoping to play down the news, called the announcement "unfortunate...