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...operations. The old system involved an elaborate flow pattern -- a little like a Super Bowl play -- of pictures, paper layouts and computer data, tied to three separate computer systems. Whenever there was a news event or we wanted to use a better picture, those complexities made any change a chore...
...roommates helped me re-establish my confidence in myself that I was questioning," Barringer says. "And Robin took me on as her chore. She is my hero...
...Major powers such as the U.S. are reluctant to take on the duty, let alone the cost, of intervening unilaterally. Should the United Nations assume the chore? In the wake of more than 30,000 Kurdish deaths and perhaps as many as 140,000 killed in Bangladesh's April 30 storm, many reformers pin their hopes on the organization. "Only the U.N. has the power and resources to mobilize the international community, but too often it has been hamstrung by a lack of clear leadership and coordination," argues Lynda Chalker, the British Minister for Overseas Development. Britain hopes...
...only would a battle over the content of a "Harvard canon" be vicious, but the outcome would be undesirable. It would force students to take classes they do not want to take and read texts many of them have already read. For professors, teaching such classes would be a chore rather than a chance to teach classes in their own areas of expertise, and their teaching would be less inspired...
Lamar Alexander is used to cleaning up big messes. When he walked into the Tennessee statehouse in 1979, his first chore was to sweep up after the scandal-tainted administration of his predecessor, Ray Blanton. Last week the two-term former Governor and current president of the University of Tennessee took on another big political cleanup job. President Bush asked him to become Secretary of Education and revitalize that Cabinet post after the forced resignation earlier this month of the lackluster Lauro Cavazos. One of Alexander's first priorities, however, will be to help extricate his new boss from...