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...unemployed or "riding the bench." "In the previous 14 years, I had not been out of work for more than one week," says Pat O'Connor, 57, a Connecticut carpenter. With no work since July, O'Connor says, "It is a bad dream turning into a nightmare. Is construction dead? It's just horrible right now. No one expected this. It's a depression." He has a mortgage and is worried he will fall behind and lose his condo. "When I go to bed, I keep the TV on just so I have the noise. If it gets silent...
...Dead men tell no lies: I’m more confident of this than I am that Harvard’s concentration policies benefit us. In fact, it’s because I trust the opinion of the not-so-recently deceased that I think that the rules regarding what students can study have to change. Take Aristotle, for example. In a head to head-to-head match, Aristotle’s educational approach proves more conducive to students’ pursuit of their educational goals than that of the Harvard Registrar’s Office...
What should Harvard administrators learn from this long-dead thinker? College policies should allow students to be students: to study without rigid barriers to concentration choice. Even for those who happen to like art history and engineering sciences, the College’s attitude should not begin with the assumption that the unusual is aberrant...
...define America. Words like seasonal, local and, best of all, green market were shibboleths for every self-respecting cook from potato peeler on up. It made for a lot of roasted heritage pork and hand-foraged hen of the woods mushrooms, but it's something of a stylistic dead end. (See pictures of urban farming around the world...
...Three of the Americans were killed, two others injured. Also among the dead were two teenage schoolgirls and a Pakistani paramilitary. More than 100 people were injured, most of them schoolgirls, according to Médecins Sans Frontières doctors at a local hospital. Television images showed grim but now depressingly familiar scenes of the charred remains of nearby cars, broken masonry from the school building, scattered books and bags, and rescue workers scrambling through the debris in search of survivors...