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SECURE YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE. This is your No. 1 issue, especially if your policy is vital for covering family members. If you're in a position to negotiate severance, try to get your company to extend health benefits through the severance period or beyond. If you have a working spouse, see whether it's possible to be added--along with any dependents--to his or her plan. Many companies allow such additions in the event of a job loss. Of course, there's COBRA--the federal law that lets you maintain your prelayoff health coverage for 18 months by paying...
...past half-century, while aiming to prevent a shift in women’s status abroad by opposing the distribution of contraception and abortion services through international aid. This ban is misogynist, its proponents are dishonest, and its spirit is reactionary. Our reasons to oppose it must, therefore, extend beyond the apt concern for women’s welfare that you express...
...reinforced concrete to create large areas of open space. Unlike traditional structures, which rely on load-bearing walls, the Carpenter Center relies on a grid of load-bearing columns. As a result, each of the five levels of the building is designed to be configurable through movable partitions that extend well short of the expansive ceiling...
...marked facet of Le Corbusier’s design is the use of concrete pilotis to elevate the building above the ground. The pilotis allow the landscape to extend beneath the building; they also interact with the landscape directly. When a site plan was being drawn up, Le Corbusier asked that all the tree locations be marked with a high level of precision. In the final design, he aligned some of the pilotis with the existing trees. The best example of this can be found near the entrance to main gallery and film archive. Looking back toward the faculty club...
...Paulin, internal student agitation played a significant role in the canceling of a lecture by the vocally anti-Zionist Irish poet. But it was arguably the national coverage of the incident that gave the English department the extra push to re-extend their invitation. While never the sole determining factor, the media attention nonetheless cemented the belief that free speech itself was at stake. Harvard’s English department could not be seen to compromise on those values...