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...1960s, more people have left the Netherlands than have arrived. Of course, that might not be a desirable outcome, even for Verdonk's fans. "In the perception of immigrants, the political climate has deteriorated so far that those who have prospects abroad leave," says Rinus Penninx, an immigration expert at the University of Amsterdam. "And that's not the group you want to lose." Such complications have been part of the reason Britain's political parties have not been playing the immigration card too obviously, even while the country appears to be inflamed over the subject. Last week Home Secretary...
...someone who comes from Scotland, I realize I'm no expert on the school system here. However, it seems to me that children in this country are not valued for their talents if those talents are not directed at a college education. College is not for everyone, yet those who don't have a college education appear to be seen in this country as failures. Maybe it's time for people to stop living their lives through their children and find out what their children really want to do with their lives...
...Even in the United States, which has 200 years of democratic history, most of its Presidents were only of mediocre caliber." XU CHONGDE, Chinese constitutional-law expert, on why Hong Kong doesn't need universal suffrage...
...intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged. But primly. This was the '50s. And primitively. No retakes; no expert lighting; no dialogue - no sound. Just the girls. Rather, the girl. The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini, as she was dubbed. Satan's Angel. Bettie Page...
...Light, who has served as acting dean of Harvard Business School since last August, was appointed the school’s permanent chief yesterday.Faculty members expressed broad support for Light, a 64-year-old expert in finance and investment management who has spent more than half his life at the Business School.When University President Lawrence H. Summers informed the school’s faculty of Light’s appointment at a closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon, the professors immediately rose for a standing ovation, according to Professor of Management Practice Arthur I. Segel...