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...Menand, who did not play a role in drafting the new resolution and was on leave last year, said it would be more “efficient” to have a straight distribution requirement, rather than claim to be giving concentrators a unified experience...
...than half a century was diverted to cover health-care expenses, says Amy Bronson, who recently retired from Chrysler LLC and is now working on a Ph.D. at Wayne State University in Detroit. Union members also paid more for health care and gave ground on work rules, which critics claim drive up operating costs. In many plants, the work rules have been virtually eliminated, she says...
...It’s not too devastating early in the season, because you can always bounce back.”O’Connor did just that in the wrestleback draw, grinding out a 4-3 decision over Boise State’s No. 10 Adam Hall to claim a spot on the medal stand.While three superb efforts boosted the Crimson to a respectable team finish, the squad witnessed first-hand the importance of depth. While Harvard’s remaining wrestlers competed fiercely throughout the weekend, only Peppelman (149) notched more than one victory.After falling to No. 10 Cesar...
...Carroll in his much read book Constantine's Sword. Carroll wrote that Augustine and his followers believed that Jews "must be allowed to survive, but never to thrive" so that their public misery would broadcast their "proper punishments for their refusal to recognize the truth of the Church's claims." And the rest, goes the claim, was bloody history. But in a new book, Augustine and the Jews, Paula Fredriksen, a Boston University religion professor and self-proclaimed "Augustinista," upends the received wisdom. Fredriksen is no coddler of anti-Judaism. A former Catholic who long ago converted to Judaism...
...densely populated residential area of Jos, dozens of homes lay crumbling, and blood splatter stained floors, walls and the large peach-colored boulders between homes. Residents displayed three houses where they claim men dressed in army uniforms had killed eight, 11, and three people. Law enforcement officials had been given shoot-on-sight orders by the state governor and had used them. "The security that came to control the situation then started shooting randomly," says Alhaji Muhammed, chairman of one of the political parties at the heart of last week's contentious election. "Before the Army came...