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...diplomats who refuse to go would be forced to leave government - three years into the war the State Department has managed to staff only 52% of its positions dealing with Iraq. Recruit and deploy economic managerial expertise from the U.S. government and private sector to find ways to employ Iraqis. In the short term, find ways to increase the availability of dependable power, clean water, fuel, etc. Give the tribal leaders cash incentives to protect Iraq's oil facilities and pipelines or suffer the consequences...
...Some U.S. companies are already taking notice. Last week, Intel announced plans to invest $1 billion in building the world's largest microchip assembly factory in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. Factories contracted by Nike employ 160,000 people, and recently increased their annual production to 70 million pairs of shoes, making Vietnam the world's second-largest source of Nike sneakers. (China is the largest.) The attraction for investors is obvious: Vietnam's labor force is educated, young and growing, while wages are even lower than in China's coastal cities. And the repressive political climate...
...kick-out from inside for the spot-up three. The style of play in the league has adjusted to accommodate this evolution, producing offenses like the motion-oriented, three-pointer-generating machine of Princeton, or the fast, guard-driven, up-and-down attack of Penn. Ivy teams generally employ small, mobile lineups that utilize the three position on the court as a third guard rather than a small forward, capitalizing on the opportunity to add another perimeter shooter to the lineup.Last year, Harvard went against this grain, utilizing a more traditional, methodical offense flowing through the stalwarts down...
...large pharmaceutical companies maintain their influence on Capitol Hill. Drug companies spent over $800 million on federal lobbying and federal and state campaign donations during the last seven years—more than any other industry, according to the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity—and employ nearly 1,300 lobbyists in the nation’s capital...
...with so much at stake. The academic reputation of every student at this College stands to be potentially determined, at the first level at least, by a computer. The administration has a duty both to ensure that the program works well for more sophisticated college level work and to employ its use with a fair degree of skepticism; even computer programs can make mistakes and standardization should not lead to blind trust. Every case should in the end be held to the scrutiny of human judgment. Overall, however, we welcome the College’s attempt to modernize this system...