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University administrators spent much of yesterday attempting to contact every Harvard student they believed was in London at the time of the attacks. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert Mitchell estimated that the number of undergraduates in the London area to be around 70, and the number of graduate students to be between...
Thousands of miles from London, officials at Harvard, watching television news reports of the London blasts for the first time, rushed to contact every Harvard student they believed to be in the London area...
Another alliance of conservative groups, the Judicial Confirmation Network, is promising to spend about $3 million on television and radio ads to support Bush's choice. It is paying staff members in six states--Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Nebraska and Virginia--to organize conservatives to contact their representatives in Congress and urge them to support Bush's eventual nominee. All those states but Maine went for Bush in 2004, and of those, all but Virginia and Maine have at least one Democratic Senator whom the group will try to characterize as out of step with his or her constituency. Progress...
SHAKING HANDS "The business arena is gender neutral, or it should be. So it doesn't matter who extends a hand first, man or woman. Give a firm handshake; give eye contact. The most important thing is always stand when someone shakes your hand. When you stand, it shows respect. It's about making the other person feel important...
When I shakily re-entered the stream of humanity, or perhaps inhumanity, I noticed things I hadn’t before. The New York walk, for instance, filled with purpose, but purposeless. The faces that looked unwaveringly ahead yet saw nothing. The way that people avoided eye contact at all costs on the subway. The fact that middle seats are almost never taken on even the most crowded rush hour train—people would rather stand. Why is it that when taking public transportation—one of the last places that all segments of society come into close...