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...about the qualifications it sought through university spokesman Peter Costa. "The corporation has not issued a set of required prerequisites for the new president, but he or she should have a distinguished intellect and be a recognized scholar. The president also must be a strong leader, and have a keen sense of management and a deep concern for Harvard and for higher education," he said...
...have a real problem with gratuitous violence. Video games would be the area that most alarms me. That's one thing that I'm not too keen to have wandering into my house without me really knowing what's going on. My daughter doesn't have a PlayStation at the moment. She is desperate for one. Particularly with younger children, I don't like the idea that they're going to be blowing people up, these little humanoids on the screen, with no thought of what this really means. And doing that for points. I think there is a vast...
...four years he'd worked in the DPRK. He said if the DPRK can open up to the outside world and become a market economy, outsiders would find the population "very hard workers". He said that as far as he could tell, the North Koreans are very keen now to open up. "It's the compulsion of difficulties which is forcing them to look outward," he said...
Well, you wouldn't know they were keen from the behavior of government officials or the cowed population on the street. The minders tried to keep the journalists cooped up inside the Hotel Koryo - clean and pleasant enough, with good Korean food, Japanese beer and working phone lines. The diplomats staying at the hotel were told in their pre-trip briefing in D.C. that they would be in the part of the hotel that was bugged and had surveillance, while the journalists were in the bug-free tower...
Tesauro's team has kept a keen eye on the sale of a wide variety of nonmedical products sold by pharmacies and taken action as well. Last March the Authority dissolved a cartel of six producers of powdered milk for babies, which for years had denied supermarkets the chance to sell their product and instead used pharmacies as the main means of distribution. As a result, according to the Authority, powdered- milk prices were two to three times higher in Italy than abroad. Supermarkets at last started selling the product this summer...