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...elimination of outsourcing will not come easily. The University has argued that outsourcing (or at least the possibility of going to an outside contractor) is needed to maintain quality as well as to reduce costs. Harvard is an institution of teaching and research, and at a certain level it makes sense for the University to look to more specialized firms to provide its services—after all, Harvard is not in the security guard business. If it was reluctant to establish a wage floor, the University will be even more hesitant to tie its hands and to restrict itself...
...can’t afford my life,” said Nasrin Akther, 21, who operates a sewing machine for a Disney contractor and is not related to Janu...
McKean’s e-mail, which crossed several large distribution lists, also pointed out Winokur’s involvement in DynCorp, a Defense Department contractor...
...hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also manages to avoid the standard genre trick of trotting out every bland hypocrisy behind the picket fence...
...troops in 1990 arrived in his sacred Saudi homeland to fight Saddam Hussein, bin Laden considered their infidel presence a desecration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthplace. He was inspired to take on a second superpower, and he was funded to do so: by a fortune inherited from his contractor father, by an empire of business enterprises, by the hubris that comes from being a rich kid whose commands had always been obeyed by nannies, butlers and maids...