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...slim margin, it needs low-maintenance customers. At the firm's New York City café, one of five token storefronts, manager Omar Woodard recently let an older woman walk away without an account after she worried aloud that branchless banking might be too newfangled. "Customers who don't fit our business model don't fit our business model, and that's totally O.K.," says Woodard. "The bank just wasn...
...This is not an easy question. Fortunately, two of the three appeals-court judges were clear-headed enough to see a distinction. Hamdi and others captured while actively fighting the U.S. on a foreign battlefield, or shortly after leaving the battlefield, naturally fit under the laws of war and can be held, with minimal rights, by the military so that they do not return to the enemy to fight again. The Bush Administration argued that al-Marri was also an enemy combatant, committed to fighting on behalf of al-Qaeda, but the court didn't see it that...
...thought about these issues, a pattern has emerged: they are synergistic, mutually reinforcing. They fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. National service would produce more quality teachers; the Wyden plan would transfer money into teacher salaries and away from health benefits; the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce would produce the scientists and engineers necessary to achieve energy independence. When you put the jigsaw puzzle together, the nation that emerges is more equitable, more efficient, with a reinvigorated citizenry-a safer and more powerful nation, braced by the power of moral example as well...
...better place. The other concrete need is for the entire University community to recognize that the world is not color-blind, and that a careful, self-conscious, and hyper-cautious level of procedural circumspection is sometimes necessary in order to guarantee fairness to those who “fit the description.” However, institutional action is but a potential catalyst to the social change that is really needed. On a diverse campus and in the prime of their intellectual and social lives, students of all colors, religions, genders, and sexual orientations need to take the time to look...
...Nobody was kind of looking over the thing and saying, you know, this is how the pieces might fit,” Menand said. A little bit of the problem with Gen Ed was that it came last, but it was the dog that wagged the tail...