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...some extent, the 271 pages deliver, providing comprehensive listings of student resources intermixed with fairly thought-provoking analyses of women’s history and hot topics de jour...
...fine line, though, because we want to find kids who we will get along with in the workplace. When you are working 100-plus hours a week with someone, you need it to be someone who you can relate to. Every office has a culture to a certain extent, and you have to work to upkeep that culture at least on a basic level...
Perhaps Summers does not realize the extent to which the principles he now embraces are not being fulfilled by the policies he proposes. For instance, he lauds the collective bargaining process as the best way for workers to improve their wages and working lives, yet he rejects those measures that would provide for strong unions that could represent their members fairly. In effect, he is refusing to promise not to employ union-busting tactics. Yet he rejects a living wage on the grounds that an “externally-set wage” would undermine the autonomy of unions...
...Still, the first day of the conference had good stuff on the world economy and the "Clash of Civilizations" thesis, and, I'm told, on artificial intelligence. To an extent, the week got off to something of unexpected start. Every pudding needs a theme, and most conferences do, too. But the idea that is emerging, quietly, as the guiding text of Davos-in-New York is not, I suspect, the one that most people in the Waldorf-Astoria - to say nothing of those outside - would have anticipated...
...that policy discussions should be kept private—even those involving industry insiders—to ensure that the president and vice president can receive “unvarnished advice.” He has said that industry executives will be less likely to come forward if the extent of their discussions with the administration may someday become public knowledge. However, the GAO is not asking for the vice president to reveal the contents of every conversation; he is not being asked to indicate who on the list of names was a whistle-blower. And if a precedent...