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...models from other European and Asian manufacturers are catching up in quality. In the meantime, a Canadian marketing company, Great White North Communications, is filling the void. The Toronto-based firm owns a fleet of 40 boats and charges some $30,000 to provide consulting, technical support and boat hire for dragon-boat festivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing the Dragon | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...workers—soaring cost of living in the Boston areas, higher wages at peer institutions—providing dining hall workers with higher wages would be further justified by the need for a better safety net for unexpected summer unemployment (even at its best, Harvard could never re-hire all dining hall employees for the summer). Moreover, the entire Harvard community stands to gain from a happier, better compensated work-force...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Something to Chew On | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...honor and integrity who could bring justice to the wretched of this world ? it certainly wasn't Diego Alatriste y Tenorio. As an infantry captain, he had fought well against Spain's enemies. But now he was hacking out a squalid living in Madrid as a sword-for-hire. Nevertheless, Captain Alatriste is poised to become fiction's hottest international swashbuckler since the Scarlet Pimpernel. Already a cult hero in Spain, Alatriste is the star of five novels by former journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte that have sold more than 4 million copies in 50 countries since the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pen And the Sword | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...can’t pay my bills,” said Nicolson. “I save money out of my weekly pay check while I’m working at Harvard so that I can get by over the summer.” Currently, outside contractors hire temporary workers for summer jobs. Unless Harvard puts pressure on the contractors, they have no reason to hire term-time dining hall staff, according to union officer Edward B. Childs. SLAM is currently trying to help the dining hall employees realize these benefits when their contracts are renegotiated next month...

Author: By Peter R. Raymond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SLAM Backs Dining Workers | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...school if its test scores lagged for two straight years; now those schools don't have to provide transfers for those students if they are offered free tutoring instead. And the Department is allowing some failing school districts to offer the tutoring themselves, rather than requiring districts to hire independent companies as previously mandated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Child Left Behind: Giving the States a Break | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

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