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...long time, Harvard employees were generally better off than their subcontracted colleagues. But after a fuss was raised by student activists, faculty and the national media in 2001, Harvard tried to diminish the differential, closing the gap between benefits and pay of its own employees and of contracted workers...
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According to Caton, the biggest gap in Middle Eastern studies, and the one that has incited the most consternation among undergraduates, is the lack of a political scientist in the government department. It has been over a decade since a tenured faculty member has held a position in the department and a year since the junior faculty slot was left vacant...
...want to provoke China by promoting independence for Taiwan-the traditional base for the DPP's archrival, the Kuomintang (KMT). But if Taoyuan voter Chou Hui-mei, a 45-year-old furniture importer, is anything to go by, Chen's strategy is having some success bridging that ideological gap. Chou's parents were mainlanders who fled to the island along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in 1949, and she herself was once a member of the KMT. But she's switching sides, she says, because she agrees with the DPP's policy of putting Taiwan first. "I was born...
...Proportion of senior Chinese officials who believe the gap between rich and poor in the mainland is the biggest problem in 2004, beating out public security at 24.3% and corruption...