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...with the hope that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind." I believe that the vast majority of people realistically fear that mankind has a tremendous amount of killing and savagery ahead of us before we truly civilize ourselves. But let's hope you are correct. John Carter, Atlantic Beach...
...capita income trails that of the U.S., but salaries here tend to be higher than those in Britain. And while it might be easier to fire a worker in Denmark than elsewhere in Europe, companies must follow strict rules that require advance notice of termination. Fox was correct in observing that most workers assume more responsibility than do their fellow Europeans. I have been a resident of Denmark since 1989, and I have no desire to return to Britain. John Barton, VEJLE, DENMARK...
...much of the past three weeks in Beirut shuttling between bickering Lebanese politicians while other French officials have consulted the Syrian leadership. In reaction to the bomb attack, a clearly exasperated Kouchner said it was a "cowardly attack that shows a clear intention to cause instability," adding that the correct response is to proceed with the presidential election...
...study, the economics and psychology departments announced that they were suddenly no longer allowing joint concentrations in their departments. The timing of this announcement could not have been much worse, as it forced prospective joint-concentrators in these two fields into rushed decisions and saw them scraping to correct their plans of study at the last minute. In light of Harvard’s recent efforts to promote good advising on campus, decisions of timing such as this one are at once unacceptable and embarrassing. Advisers cannot effectively counsel undergraduates on their plans of study if concentration requirements are restructured...
...cardinal rule in police work is that the simplest explanation is often the correct one. But that maxim has been obliterated in the case of John Darwin, the missing British kayaker who surfaced this week, claiming amnesia, more than five years after vanishing in the North Sea. In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target...