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Three and a half years ago, as the U.S. prepared for war with Iraq, Condoleezza Rice went to President Bush with a complaint: Donald Rumsfeld wouldn't return her calls. At the time, Rumsfeld was the Administration's swaggering alpha male, a global celebrity whom even Bush called a "matinee idol"; Rice was the overwhelmed National Security Adviser, struggling to make herself heard above the din of colliding war-cabinet egos. "I know you won't talk to Condi," Bush told Rumsfeld, according to Bob Woodward's book State of Denial. "But you've got to talk...
...says Cuseo. According to her, the consultants don’t know the students, the teachers, or the way the high school works. This can actually hurt a student’s application, she says, and can lead to obvious packaging.FITTING IN THE BOXThis is perhaps the most common complaint leveled at consulting companies of all kinds. Critics claim that consultants force applicants to think strategically, and this usually means looking at what works—what scores, what extracurriculars, and what admissions essays are usually successful—and then plugging those things into every application. One worry...
...hurt many small shop owners - the brouhaha clearly illustrates the central role of the Supreme Court in India's daily governance. And it's not confined to urban planning. Last month, the Court ruled that the country's 250 zoos could no longer breed animals, in response to a complaint by animal rights activists that the zoos are overcrowded and badly run. The Court also recently stepped into the debate over a government decision to increase the percentage of state jobs reserved for poor people from lower castes. The Supreme Court judges said that parliament should allow the Court...
...inmates in his range were let out of their cells four or five times a week for indoor exercise and once a week for a break in the yard. More recently they have been lucky to get outside once a month. Rudolph has joined other inmates in filing a complaint with the Bureau of Prisons over deteriorating conditions, but he doesn't hold out much hope that they will be corrected...
This kind of thing is going to have Grime purists throwing themselves in front of trains (freight, not passenger). While it’s a stock reaction for devotees of any genre to accuse those finding crossover success of betraying their roots, but Sov might deserve the complaint...