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Many professors see the new revisions as clarifications without any substantive changes in the rules, but others see broader implications limiting professors' ability to engage in academic discourse or to earn supplemental income. We believe that the closer definition of these rules will be less a limitation for professors than an improvement for the quality of teaching and learning at Harvard. Professors' primary obligation is to their students, and there is nothing wrong with Harvard reminding them of that fact...
...visit. With the help of some Indonesian students, we spoke with scores of workers and did some rudimentary "faux bargaining" calculations. Had the workers won a meager seniority clause increase of 15 cents per worker per day for each year of seniority, a worker with four years' experience would earn $1.70 a day, instead of $1.10. This does not sound like much money, but in this huge factory, it would cost the contractor $10,000 a day! No wonder the vast majority of Nike contractors have set up shop where bosses can refuse to bargain with workers...
Under the original terms of the sanctions, the U.N. banned all trade with Iraq and froze all Iraqi assets overseas. Although food and medicine were theoretically exempt from this scheme, the country could not pay for such imports without export earnings. Moreover, since every sector of the Iraqi economy depended on foreign machines and parts, the Iraqi government could not repair electric, telephone, water, road, or sewer networks that had been destroyed during the Gulf War and the previous eight-year war with Iran. As a result of the economic collapse, Iraqi civil servants now earn about $2.50 per month...
...prescription drugs most often used by seniors outpaced the national inflation rate by 50 percent in the past year. Put it all together and you have an issue with such broad appeal that it offers Republicans a chance to show their moderate side and also allows Democrats to earn their liberal stripes with the party's core. And that's a prescription for reform of the way our seniors finance their pharmaceuticals...
...aheads trawling for business connections. Applying directly is the surest way never to be invited back. You will be “tapped” accordingly, if they decide to show an interest in you. During elections, it takes two black balls from the governing board to earn a rejection. “You really do have to know people,” says Minturn...