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...Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej, boasts a famous palate; before he assumed the P.M. post, Samak hosted his own TV cooking show. But during a trip to neighboring Laos earlier this week, Samak sampled a chili-paste-and-fermented-fish concoction at a local market, and found to his considerable discomfort that the dish disagreed with him. On April 1 - and, no, this was no April Fool's joke - local newspapers put coverage of the Prime Minister's diarrhea on the front page. Hospitalized for food poisoning, Samak had to pull out of several cabinet meetings. The Prime Minister's fate...
...That discomfort is especially great on companies and countries that have been slow to reform their economies - such as France and Italy, whose considerable price tags for cars, trains, airplanes, luxury goods and food products have become absolutely daunting once they've traversed the euro-dollar exchange. In places like the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria - where enormous pressure on salaries and production costs have made goods and companies more competitive in recent years - the rise of the euro has been less catastrophic, though only in relative terms. Whereas Germany has watched the plummeting dollar eat at its healthy trade surplus...
...impossible to know which side wins in a cost-benefit analysis: “Might the Muslim students’ discomfort outweigh the educational benefits?” is an argument with which I sympathize. I am skeptical, however, that discomfort can ever be avoided when dealing with tensions of privileges, exclusion, and religion; these issues are controversial because of their public nature—in how they infringe on the privileges of some in order to benefit others—and the administration’s attempt to sidetrack controversy only created more...
Student-life administrators take notice: the ramifications of this relatively affordable concession could be enormous. The elimination of nighttime stress and discomfort would certainly bring about increased satisfaction and rest. In turn, students might remember their time haunting Harvard more fondly, and thus give more generously as alumni. Tossing these sorry excuses for sleeping arrangements is an investment in Harvard’s future—and this place needs some extra money...
...Peebles acknowledges the fact that PHE, along with many other Public Service Network and PBHA programs, often tries to weed out those participants who don’t want to be there in any discomfort...