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...individuals. Consider the stand the E.U. is taking against Austria and the dominos that have fallen since the U.S. ambassador withdrew. I don't mean to hold argumentative, individualist logic on a high plane above consensus. Intuition can be a great help in situations where the facts are dubious...
...post is big-city school superintendent, and it's open in 13 major cities across the U.S. as a crisis in school leadership unfolds. With their responsibilities growing, their authority eroding and their average tenure dropping to less than three years, urban school leaders now hold a dubious honor once reserved for anyone managing the New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner: they have the toughest job in America...
...would-be Tom Ripleys plan summers of bliss on the Continent. But casual dress and a torrent of daiquiris give way to grueling work, internal struggles, marijuana brownies, la cucuracha! and the Let's Go libido. So the staffers tell FM. Despite the tangles that come from the dubious mixing of business with undergraduate pleasure, Let's Go writers and editors for the most part praise the organization, and the resulting travel books take on a unique feel--aimed at the young crowd and dripping with Harvard wit. If Let's Go is new territory for you, allow...
...management. Since Weiss had worked well for Let's Go before, they signed off on the hire. "It wasn't nepotism," Dovey explains. Weiss complements her strengths. "He's a computer science major. I'm into writing." The guide was generally considered a success, but the dubious nature of the hire still raises questions about the committment to professionalism expected of a successful publishing company...
...criticized by the U.S. and Irish governments, as well as by the SDLP. "The IRA may have shot itself in the foot in terms of international support," says McAllister. "But there's clearly a split between the Sinn Fein leadership and the IRA hard men who've always been dubious about surrendering their weapons, even though those weapons are silent. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness may have thought they could deliver at least a token IRA commitment by the end of January, but they clearly can't - and Trimble's ultimatum, if anything, has made their task even more difficult...