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...novelists like Darryl Pinckney and Charles Johnson. But Phillips says he fits in more with other British writers who were "born in the old empire...People like Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri and Salman Rushdie...In the last ten years or so a lot of British writers have had a fix from another part of the world and have changed the notion of what constitutes British writing quite radically...
According to Hicks, the discrepancy in overtime hours worked during this period persisted after Hicks met with management officials to try to fix the earlier imbalances...
...find it surprising that Brad Setser and other UC members quoted in your article support a wider use of the CUE to assess teaching fellows. Such a practice would represent a quick fix of "empowerment" to those students who care or are particularly disgruntled that would, in the end, be diluted by the general apathy and lack of inspiration in the average CUE response. A few particularly lame TFs would go to the woodshed on the third floor of the Science Center and the status quo would remain in place. The plan also makes Dean Buell look good while...
...became those who breathe the rarefied air in Bel Air and Beverly Hills that Eastwood was grooming himself to become the next Ronald Reagan. It was far simpler than that. Eastwood felt his town government wasn't working, and he was willing to sacrifice his privacy to try to fix it. Eastwood, like the Man with No Name or Dirty Harry, acts decisively on his convictions...
...sentiments and will turn out to back him at the ballot box. By tradition and temperament, Russians have little patience for the parliamentary gab sessions they have been watching on television for a year now. They know that as long as the talk continues, nothing will be done to fix the economy. Moscow commentators have compared events in Russia with the corruption scandal shaking the political system in Italy. But if you ask Russians, they would gladly endure the turmoil going on in Rome -- as long as they could enjoy the Italian standard of living...