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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Although Harvard undergraduates are protected against discrimination in the non-discrimination clause of the undergraduate handbook, we do not promise these rights to all Harvard employees who are an integral and vital part of our community. Though the current contract for dining-hall workers includes anti-discrimination language, it is not as strong as the language for students, nor does it outline any mechanism of action to take when an offense occurs. On the other hand, the undergraduate handbook outlines the course of action for students in instances of discrimination. This discrepancy becomes apparent when workers, such...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Not at My Harvard | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

...course, the folks at PIU have not gone into this airily. The head office worked with team-building experts for a year to devise a handbook that is to be sent to all 175 PIU franchisees around the country. For franchise owners, it's a win-win. They can usually fill their facilities with hordes of birthday-cake-fueled kids on weekends and even after school. But business sags considerably during office hours. (See pictures of office cubicles around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Business Via Bouncy Castles | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...life when a course of action presents itself with such clarity that there is nothing to do but pursue it,” she wrote in her Guggenheim biography. While she was on the train home from New Delhi for the holidays, Banaji purchased five volumes of the Handbook of Social Psychology edited by Lindzey and Aronson, for five dollars, lured not so much by the books’ content as by their low price. By the time she arrived home 24 hours later, she had already devoured an entire volume. She says the combination of a focus on social...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Chance Road to Harvard | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...Thais believe that a person's soul abides in the crown of the hair on top of the head. To bump, hit, rub, or touch the head is to offend the soul, perhaps causing it to run away from home." - Handbook for foreign students at a Thai university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Englishman in the Land Of Smiles | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...obtained a variety of internal memos circulating at the Department of Defense that detail possible rule changes at Gitmo, if the camp and its controversial legal system survive. The proposals - under discussion but not formally adopted - could be included in the Pentagon's official "Manual for Military Commissions," a handbook of rules for the controversial proceedings. What follows are excerpts from those memos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Possible Rule Changes for Gitmo | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

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