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That's not the case at all universities. At the University of California at Berkeley, for example, "when we try to hire people it's not just who we want but can we get them," says Christina D. Romer, a professor at the school who is involved in recruiting there...
Harvard faces perhaps a little more difficulty recruiting people with families because it tends to hire more people directly to senior professorships than other universities, according to Kirshner...
...Harvard is different from other places in the sense that we tend to hire more people at the tenure level," said Kirshner, "and of course what that means is people put down roots in a community and that means both people in a couple...
Mindful of this year's tragedies, Richard Vladovic, administrator of the San Pedro schools, has just had approval from the school board to hire a full-time person to continue special counseling, not only at San Pedro High but at the middle schools in the area as well. Vladovic (San Pedro class of '62) says he would most like to teach children today that "the true measure of success is how you overcome the obstacles. We need to teach youngsters that failure is not permanent. Suicide is, but failure...
Such surveillance rarely uncovers serious abuse or dereliction, says Richard Heilweil of Babywatch. Yet about 70% of parents who hire Babywatch wind up dismissing the care giver for some minor transgression, such as talking on the phone or watching TV. "It is troubling to see so many people treating their domestic employees in a way they would never tolerate being treated themselves," says Lewis Maltby, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who is working with outraged nanny groups to find "the right case" to challenge the surveillance. He will argue that federal laws prohibiting undisclosed audiotaping should apply...