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Because this is the tail end of my junior year, and because I am concentrating in History and Literature, where theses are de rigeur, my tutor and I have been discussing potential thesis topics. Although many of my classmates have submitted thesis-research grant applications in which they use the word “agency” a lot, I have only gotten as far as free-associating about nineteenth-century machine breakers...
JOSCHKA FISCHER by Charles Grant...
...temps represent a chance to control costs: while hourly wages are usually higher for temps, employers can save the 20% to 35% of salary they pay for permanent employees in taxes and benefits. Georgetown University expanded its internal temporary-staffing service two years ago to include such professionals as grant administrators, researchers and auditors. These nonclerical workers account for about a third of the hundreds of temporary spots Georgetown fills each year. "I think it's a result of the university's trying to make the most of its resources," says Diane Charness, manager of Georgetown's temporary service. "Part...
...Soto, 62, offers a simple solution: give these underground denizens legal title to their homes and businesses. That would grant them access to bank credit and investment capital, much as the property-title revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries enriched Western Europe and North America. A limited experiment in Peru in the 1990s proved the idea had merit when it brought in more than $1 billion in new tax revenue. Some 30 heads of state, from Egypt to Mexico, have hired de Soto for similar projects. "I think our time has come," says de Soto. "Four billion people exist...
...understands Israel's security dilemmas and the importance of a European commitment to Israeli security." He is thought to covet the position of E.U. Foreign Minister, which will be established when a draft European constitution is ratified. Europe would be lucky to have so thoughtful a spokesman. --BY CHARLES GRANT, director of the Center for European Reform in London