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Those problems have begun to take their toll. While faculty and administrators alike insist the school’s academic mission has not been compromised, they concede that the crunch is on the verge of becoming a crisis, and have made finding adequate facilities a top priority...
...transplanting to Allston is not without downsides for the faculty and students of SPH, many of whom insist that the school is still making its own decisions about a new campus...
Your item on the $2 million birthday party that former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski threw for his wife [Nov. 10] asked, "$2 million and the best he could do was Jimmy Buffett?" But Parrot Heads (as Buffett's fans are known) the world over would insist that Kozlowski's choice of musician was probably the single best decision he made during his Tyco tenure! RICHARD D. BELISLE Severna Park...
...None of which appears to disturb Gayoom's reverie. Ensconced in his seafront palace, the President is cooing over his victory in October's election when, as the sole candidate, he won 90% of the vote. (Opposition figures abroad insist the elections?conducted by Gayoom's appointees?were rigged. Gayoom denies this.) The President airbrushes away anything that mars his picture of a peaceful paradise. To allegations of profiting from tourism, he declares that "I'm a poor man," despite the presidential yacht bobbing behind him. He says the press is free and the editors of the Internet magazine Sandhaanu...
...devastating oil spill that polluted some of France's best-loved beaches. "They had a lot of dodgy relationships [with governments] and the whole system was opaque," says Gavin Hayman of U.K.-based Global Witness, a fierce critic of Big Oil's behavior in Africa. But Total officials insist that they've changed their spots. So bribery and leaky old tankers are out; codes of conduct and wind energy are in. Instead of ignoring protest groups like Greenpeace, the company now tries to engage them in dialogue. In poor countries, it's funding projects designed to win over indigenous peoples...