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...interview with TIME, he dismissed the President as "a minor clerk" who ended up running Russia "by a stroke of luck." He claimed that "disappointment and irritation" with Putin are growing in the middle ranks of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB and a crucial Putin power base. And he predicted that opposition will continue to grow - and that it could even drive Putin from office before the end of his second term...
Over-the-counter access to emergency contraception is a crucial resource for all women, especially because it can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, but it is not an abortion. Emergency contraception can stop the egg fertilization and implantation necessary for pregnancy, but it has no effect on an implanted egg if a woman is already pregnant. It therefore provides an important option for women who want to avert pregnancy, especially if they do not want to choose abortion. Given that the drug’s effectiveness is directly linked to how soon after sex it is taken, making it available...
...Both problems were identified in the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review. The nationwide search for the right individuals to take on these duties begins this spring, and we are hopeful that the new deans will move the College toward a more unified residential life experience and a carry out crucial reforms to Harvard’s advising...
...impression that he or she makes in the first 100 days on the job. So say Thomas Neff and James Citrin, top brass at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, in You're in Charge--Now What?, which presents a detailed "8-point plan" to help aspiring CEOs navigate that crucial phase. Neff and Citrin interviewed dozens of executives while conducting their research, and they illustrate each point of their plan--from shaping a management team to crafting a strategic agenda to engineering corporate culture--with real-life examples of success and failure. To explain the importance of preparation before...
...cards that students then cheerfully abuse. Demos, a public-policy group, says credit-card debt for Americans 18 to 24 more than doubled from 1992 to 2001.) The longer it takes to pay off those loans, the longer it takes twixters to achieve the financial independence that's crucial to attaining an adult identity, not to mention the means to get out of their parents' house...