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Harvard professors don’t scare easily. Though protected by life tenure and the prestige of an elite university, they are occasionally called to act at great risk to their sense of comfort. And rarely have they shown more courage, more disregard for personal convenience in the face of mortal danger, than in proposing a no-confidence motion in University President Lawrence H. Summers, to be voted on in an emergency meeting next week...
...that Charles and Camilla are proven adulterers is no concern of mine. I'm no moralist, and I'm also a realist. I fully accept and understand that chastity among top-rank British royals is rarer than literacy among American presidents. What troubles me, however, is Prince Charles' flagrant disregard for natural law - the law of the jungle, not the law of heaven - in spurning a very young, attractive woman for a plainer specimen one year his senior, to whom he's stayed faithful, by all appearances, until this very day. God may or may not approve of these decisions...
...faster China pumps out products, the more powerless and frustrated factory workers have become with chronically low wages, poor living conditions and disregard for their rights. Discontent has boiled over in a rising number of strikes and protests. Taiwan-owned Stella International's six Dongguan factories, which employ some 50,000 people making shoes for more than a dozen overseas companies, including Nike, Reebok, Clarks, Sears and Timberland, were hit by at least three disturbances alone last spring. Grievances included the quality of cafeteria food, overtime policies and holiday...
...Rumsfeld told Wilson, "not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time." While the Bush Administration has been criticized for its refusal to acknowledge the scale of the dangers in Iraq, Rumsfeld's comments, however unintentionally, conveyed something far more disturbing, a seemingly blithe disregard for the welfare of troops. "You can talk like that to a congressional committee or a reporter," says retired four-star...
...when the ball hurtles down towards him, try your best to disregard the world of professors. Try to forget that in Cambridge, success is nearly synonymous with throwing an arm into...