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...polished leader, taught Summers how to watch his mouth, treat people with sensitivity, and approach potential controversy with caution. Never again would Summers allow himself to be caught with his name next to anything like the “infamous World Bank memo,” a leaked internal document about the dumping of toxic waste that made him an army of enemies back...
...passage quickly - before a lethal cocktail of ignorance, apathy and low turnout produces a potentially fatal no vote. In Spain last week, 77% of those who went to the polls voted yes, and though turnout was just 42%, the result was a big win for supporters of the document, which extends the E.U.'s reach into areas like immigration and asylum; recalibrates voting procedures among member states; and creates the positions of E.U. President and E.U. Foreign Minister - basic requirements, backers say, for a Europe that punches its weight on the world stage. Hoping to ride Spain's momentum...
...point, panelist Andy Bloch, a professional poker player and 1999 HLS graduate, presented a copy of a contract that he signed in order to participate in the WPT. He said he had crossed out areas on the document that he deemed illegal to protest the organization’s constraints on participants’ rights to gamble outside...
...days later came the full transcript of the notorious remarks by the president of her university, Lawrence Summers, who evidently has no shortage of theories about women and achievement. The document confirmed what Summers had reportedly said a month earlier in a closed-door session in which he gave his ideas about genetics and gender. "In the special case of science and engineering," he said, "there are issues of intrinsic aptitude." He did allow for the fact that he might be wrong. But he wasn't finished drawing new battle lines in the gender wars. He went on to speculate...
...Four Immigrants" is completely American. First published in San Francisco (locus of the underground comix explosion 35 years later), Kiyama's book focuses on that fundamentally American experience - the life of the immigrant. Told with naturalism, humor and a sharp social conscience, it reads as a remarkable primary historical document with surprising resonances to modern times...