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Though the problem of grade inflation has been a perennial one for Harvard, it dominated the Faculty’s agenda this year, resulting in unprecedented changes that many hope will buttress the integrity of Harvard’s name...
...well understand the tremendous opportunity Summers has before him to buttress a parity wage policy with a clear mechanism for annual adjustment of the wage standards that our committee recommended. This understanding derives from our own intimate knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of our committee’s final report. Let us be clear: no one should doubt that the immediate adoption and transparent implementation of the HCECP’s recommendations would result in significant improvements in the lives of workers at Harvard. Besides wages, the gains include making benefits affordable and accessible and having an implementation process...
...understand and anticipate the terrorist world, we need to make serious investments in "human" intelligence--agents in place, stronger links with foreign intelligence services, many more agents trained in foreign languages. Our new Grand Strategy will also need to rethink how we use international agencies to buttress our goals. We have been skeptical about their utility, from the Kyoto global-warming protocol to the United Nations, but they also deserve improvement, fresh resources, better personnel and enhanced purpose. Above all, a shell-shocked America will need to understand that a Grand Strategy to preserve this richly varied democracy...
...Mark Thompson: He?s got experience in the Pacific, he?s got experience in space, he?s got experience in Washington, so he hits those three key elements, all of which buttress what the Bush Administration is talking about doing with the military...
...take from the latest flip-kick flick? No, what's truly bizarre about this scene is that it was staged for foreign guests as part of a campaign to buttress Beijing's bid to host the summer Olympic Games in 2008. The effort reaches a crucial point this week when delegates from the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) visit the capital for four days to compare it against rival cities Paris, Toronto, Istanbul and Osaka. The violence and pyrotechnics might have sent a mixed message, but Beijing has clearly learned a lesson from a failed Olympic-hosting bid in 1993, when...