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...arrives on a foreign airline. In the U.S., the Justice Department is working harder to convict defendants; last summer a man who threw hot coffee on a flight attendant and tried to open an emergency door was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. This fall British Airways began handing out "warning cards" to anyone getting dangerously out of control. Some airlines include a pair of plastic handcuffs as standard onboard equipment, and flight attendants on KLM and USAirways undergo training to deal with aggressive behavior...
True, the 1997-98 crash has left Asian countries, companies and banks with manufacturing overcapacity and huge debts, which have to be reduced. That, says Hormats, "means more bankruptcies, more unemployment and continued recession for most of 1999" as the excesses are written off. But the free fall is over: Thailand and South Korea, in his view, might begin to grow a bit by the end of 1999, while Japan will improve--though only from negative to zero growth. General recovery region-wide will not begin until...
Students can now access fall 1997 and spring 1998 exams on the Web at www.fas.harvard.edu/~exams/....
Only those exams submitted by professors for Web publication are available online. Bound volumes of past exams will no longer be published beginning with fall 1997 exams...
...Faculty Council first discussed the proposal last fall but tabled the matter because of concerns that eliminating the exemption violates a Faculty commitment to reducing requirements, Wolcowitz said yesterday...