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More than 2,200 high school students are in Cambridge this weekend for the 40th annual Harvard Model United Nations simulation--a four-day event that represents the culmination of a semester of class research or extracurricular work for delegates and nine months of feverish preparation for 130 Harvard organizers...
Hispanic students at Cornell conducted a four-day sit-in last week to protest the vandalism. The students left the building after administrators agreed to meet with representatives of the Hispanic students tomorrow, the Cornell Daily Sun reported...
...day after the NAFTA vote, Clinton flew to Seattle, where his victory strengthened his hand considerably at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council meeting. The four-day gathering marks the first time the 17 Pacific Rim leaders have ever met as a group as well as the first time an American President has met with a Chinese leader since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The President hoped to use the conference to encourage the opening of new markets...
...broached modest alterations: allowing firms the flexibility to use extra employees at busy times and fewer off-peak and letting businesses hire young workers at less than the minimum wage if they funnel the savings into training. The government is also considering legislation to encourage companies to adopt a four-day week, which it hopes would put more people back on the payroll. Citizens are being urged to set up their own personal retirement accounts, easing the burden on employers who pay an extra 54% of a worker's salary in social-security contributions. "This is the first clear step...
Many students who live in regions farther away choose to stay on the East Coast during the four-day thanksgiving vacation, and the strike will not affect them, McKenzie said...