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...rogue leaders like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro and her support for NATO's eastward expansion. That issue will be up for discussion in July when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are expected to start formal negotiations with NATO. Enlarging NATO is also a priority for Senator William Cohen, who was confirmed Wednesday to head the Pentagon. The former Republican congressman told his colleagues in an equally amicable confirmation hearing that the U.S. cannot be "the world's policeman" and should limit its commitment in Bosnia. Instead he called for turning attention to Asia: "Our interests are potentially jeopardized...
...what does it all add up to? When asked to advise youngsters about preparing for jobs, the experts are remarkably consistent. Rule 1, says labor consultant Malcom Cohen, is become computer literate. And right alongside it, he says, is learn to communicate well through writing and speaking. Notes Audrey Freedman, an economist who specializes in labor issues: "Students should take the toughest courses they can to develop their logic and reasoning capacity." Essential too, she concurs, is expressing oneself "clearly and persuasively." Above all, in a job world where change is the only constant, the most valuable skill...
...often mean big bucks. Throughout the country, especially in California and the South, a complex network of pageant systems, as they are called, make up the circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under set. Children could compete every weekend, if they and their parents had the energy and resources. "There's a new pageant popping...
...contests raise troubling questions, though, about whether they are ultimately for the benefit of the child--or the parent. Cohen, who has judged hundreds of events, has seen the pushiest of stage parents ruin the event for a child, hollering or even hitting her for not performing well. "A lot of these parents are so serious about it that they take away all the pleasure from the kids," Cohen said. "If the child loses, they feel like they let the parent down." LaCour too has seen it all. "I've seen mothers take young girls right off the stage before...
...very excited to hear Christopher's expectations for Clinton's new national security team, with up-and-coming stars Madeleine Albright and William Cohen," said William F. Abely '99, a member of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics. "We're honored that the secretary of state would choose Harvard as the place to give his farewell speech...