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...funny (it does prompt laughter) were it not disturbing and tragic. The procedures are not so complicated that an eighth grade Model U.N. participant wouldn’t know them. The meetings are not so often—only once a month, and lasting for 90 minutes, though in contrast to years previous Summers generally starts late—that one need struggle to look attentive through them. Sadly, it is hard to see Summers’ disregard for the customs of Faculty meeting as anything but symptomatic of the disrespect this administration has shown the professoriat. And the attempt...
Public knowledge of compensation has bothered many top managers at HMC, according to Meyer. This stands in stark contrast to private investment firms, where compensation is not disclosed...
...York was always a place where the making of money was the most important thing in the world,” Limpert says. “Contrast that with the Boston of [the 1950s], where the most important thing was the life of the mind. In Boston they ask, ‘What do you know?’ In New York, they ask, ‘How much are you worth...
...radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr beat up several hundred engineering students in the southern city of Basra. Their offense: attending a picnic at which both sexes were present. Female students have been harassed for "inappropriate" clothing; a majority now wear the hijab, or head scarf, to school-a sharp contrast to the prewar period when Islamic dress was rarely seen on campus. "We see it as our duty to advise female students to wear the hijab," says Abdel Kader Ibrahim, 23, an anthropology student at the University of Baghdad and leader of a student committee backed by the Association...
This is the toughest part of the race for Rusch. Men tend to start out strong and finish weak; female racers, by contrast, gain momentum. "The first day is survival for me because everyone is so amped and they go out fast," says Rusch of the five-man, one-woman team she leads. "I'm just hanging on so I don't fall back." After just two hours, she has used up most of her glycogen--a form of energy derived from sugar and stored in muscles and certain organs--and her body starts running on fat and whatever calories...