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...exemption to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act enjoyed by colleges and universities ran out at the end of 1993. No longer able to politely inform professors they were expected to retire by age 70, tenure now truly meant a job for life...
While I expect that most Harvard students have experienced firsthand the complexities involved in such administrative decisions as admissions and dorm assignments for an extraordinarily diverse student body, I doubt that many have considered the range of factors that must inform decisions about compensation for Harvard's employees. Harvard employs more than 14,000 individuals to perform an enormous range of tasks. They work for different parts of the University and they live in cities and towns throughout the Boston area, in other parts of the country and in other parts of the world. In any given week, there...
...piece recites a litany of atrocities committed in Kosovo, quoting them verbatim from a human rights report, without any explanation or interpretation. This does nothing to inform, enrage or sadden readers; it is instead a list of foreign-sounding names and places that would mean nothing to most readers. It merely perpetuates confusion and feeds a sense of helplessness at the apparent complexity of the situation...
...piece recites a litany of atrocities committed in Kosovo, quoting them verbatim from a human rights report, without any explanation or interpretation. This does nothing to inform, enrage or sadden readers; it is instead a list of foreign-sounding names and places that would mean nothing to most readers. It merely perpetuates confusion and feeds a sense of helplessness at the apparent complexity of the situation...
...Greenspan can inform us about a wide range ofthings, from the changing role of the US in theworld economy to the process of policy formationin Washington," Feldstein said...