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...former staff members share this point of view, and they are entitled to their opinions, but I object to the emphasis that the reporter has placed on the (mostly anonymous) negative comments while neglecting to quote sufficiently the views of those making positive comments. Indeed, the negative intent of the article is obvious in the title and in the opening and closing lines. The article thus comes across as focusing unduly on the negative without adequately presenting the positive, and this, in my opinion, results in distortion...
...American creed, if it is anything, is a commitment to equal opportunity. People in our country, we like to think, should be judged by their merit, not by the tax-bracket of their parents. Yet this is how the White House internship program operates, by default if not by intent, in running an "equal opportunity" program with the implicit understanding that only the economically privileged need apply...
...elderly men on a tractor. Hundreds of Slobodan Milosevic's dreaded special police had swept down on the hard-bitten diggers at the Kolubara coal mine in Serbia's heartland who had first initiated popular resistance by refusing to work. Attempting to force out the 7,000 striking miners intent on crippling the country's electric grid, security troops surrounded the complex and blockaded a key bridge with police buses. But the workers stood fast, broadcast for help on radios and cell phones, and 20,000 pugnacious citizens converged on the mine. As they approached the barricaded bridge, those three...
Neither Arafat nor Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak seemed intent on peace yesterday...
Last spring, representatives of the institute signed a letter of intent saying that they would transfer ownership of the building to Harvard in return for forgiveness of the group's large debts to the University...