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Furthermore, the data-mining companies which obtain and sell Harvard students' information are largely unregulated by the federal laws that govern the way telemarketers make calls and solicit customers...
...simply inappropriate for condolences, apologies, thank-you's and other occasions when only a letter will do: "Even without tearstains, there is just something earnest-looking about those wandering lines and shadings of ink." Some of this apparent earnestness is surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners), e-mail has yet to succumb to the rule of a similar code: smiley faces and other vulgarities are allowed, and even the most stringent rules of grammar are regularly relaxed...
...Hasina said she has also worked to ensure that women have three of 11 seats in local governments--known as Union Parishads--that typically govern several villages. As with the Parliament, women can also serve in any of the other eight seats...
...While the win was expected, the real questions - just who is this guy, anyway, and what are his plans for Russia - remain unanswered. Putin ran the campaign that George W. Bush could only dream about, saying little and revealing even less about how he will govern, which has allowed the West to confidently label him a reformer (and politely ignore that whole Chechnya thing) while at the same time let Russians believe he's there to impose order and restore the Russian state. Both views could be right; now, of course, we get to see if they...
...Harvard Student Handbook states that it intends to safeguard "the right of all community members to be free of undue disruption in their academic and residential lives." In order to achieve that goal, the University believes that, "fundamental principles, rather than ironclad rules, must govern consultation and decision-making on residential life...