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...reaching this promised land there will be higher unemployment and a growing gap between rich and poor as inflation hits basics like food and energy. And Europe's core economies may not prove quite the locomotive the new riders had hoped. Existing members are constrained by E.U. rules that curb their powers to lower taxes or run deficits even as growth slumps. And public expectations in the candidate countries are out of whack. "People have in mind the systemic change back in the early 1990s," says Péter Balázs, Hungary's Secretary of State for European Integration...
Eliot Hoco Co-Chair Emily R. Murphy ’03, who signed the petition, said she understands the administration is concerned with student safety but feels they are misguided in their approach. Banning kegs, she said, would probably encourage rather than curb dangerous behavior...
...course the University should be working to curb sexual violence on campus, and sexual violence crimes at Harvard need the community’s attention. But one simply cannot be attentive to all of life’s darker realities at all times. There isn’t enough room in the women’s bathroom—even if people wrote on the sinks, the ceiling, the floor, to document all that is deeply wrong with humanity—at Harvard and beyond. One needs to see the reality of all these problems, but how much time spent...
Even with its smaller group-to-student ratio, BC has taken action to curb the proliferation of groups on campus...
Their next collaboration could be an airport--Rockwell's itching to design one. He just discovered that his proposal for the new Singapore airport won't fly. It had aquariums at the curb to remind people of sea level and a huge indoor aviary at the departure gate to evoke the wonder of flight. He has also been inundated with offers to design more Broadway-show sets, which he's less eager to do. He's looking for something new: opera, maybe...