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...contrast between old and new, past and present (and even future) was palpable at the park as the team which has dropped four of its first six games took the home field for the first time since a slightly different roster of players ended the 1999 season with a Game 5 loss to the Yankees. There were new faces on the field, most notably that of center-fielder Carl Everett, who hit a home run in his first Fenway at-bat and then followed it up with another one from the other side of the plate later in the game...
...contrast to last fall, where the organization didn't exercise any control over the material displayed in its name, this year posters will require approval. And Hill says Huang's poster will likely not make the cut, even with the modifications...
...paper is due) discussing subjects such as racial profiling and the causes of the English Revolution. Sections are helpful, of course, but their main importance is in laying the groundwork for further exchanges of ideas that would rarely occur without the physical proximity of other students. Distance learning, in contrast, is a very individual approach to learning complemented only by infrequent chatroom discussions...
...believe that want of B schools may be one of the most important issues facing China, but there it is. In the midst of its capitalist explosion, the country has one of the highest small-business bankruptcy rates in Asia, and only 9,000 locally trained M.B.A.s. In contrast, the U.S. churns out 70,000 M.B.A.s each year...
There is something enigmatic about Beirut. It is the tension between old cultures and new ideas, the contrast between the chaos from an absence of government and the day-to-day freedom that results. Beirut has never had an adequate infrastructure or careful planning. Fifteen years of civil war did not help either. Yet things limp along--how, no one really knows. The country has tax laws but no effective collection system, yet all government workers get paid. Street signs and numbers are erratic. If you ask, "Where is the IBM shop?" you will hear something like this: "Find...