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...Harvard [graduate] students aren't unionized but many others are. I'm not saying that's what should be done here, but there is no element of that here," Kannappan said...
...says Carl Weinberg at High Frequency Economics. At a conference with senior Japanese executives, notes Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics, "I was absolutely flabbergasted by the pessimism." Picking market bottoms is never easy. When they occur, pessimism and words like catastrophe are usually in evidence, as is some element of resolve. It's all there in Japan today. The question isn't whether things will get worse but whether the worst is priced into the market. Mutual funds that invest in Japan have been appropriately whacked. But they will recover long before the economy. That's the nature...
Rodney Gullatte Jr., 17, an African-American student in Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Ga., was still in middle school when he got his first lesson in racism. It was then that a group of white kids, whom he describes as part of a growing "skinhead" element in his school, began to harass him. "Hey, Rodney, how does it feel to be a nigger?" they would taunt. "How does it feel to know you'll always be a nigger? Is your mother a nigger too?" After a time Gullatte punched one of the white kids in the face. That earned...
...this last element--the villain of the story's formula--that falls hopelessly flat. The most outstanding animated features are those with the strongest villains; think of Cruella de Vil, Ursula and Jafar in Disney's best. Rasputin, however, is a bumbling idiot. He shrieks and whines and has the further distasteful attribute of losing his bodily limbs every so often (apparently, the animators want to make it very clear that villains must be repulsively ugly). Moreover, he seems to have absolutely no motivation for his curses. He constantly howls "The Romanovs must be destroyed!" but there seems...
...element of the new proposal is the "conflict of interests" rule, which "defines any student-teacher sexual relationship as an inherent conflict of interest which could jeopardize the learning environment," according to the Yale Daily News...