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...superbly written and informative story "The Broken Promise" [Oct. 31] on how businesses are canceling employees' retirement plans. Never have I read such forthright material, stripping away all the spin and directly addressing an economic situation that will devastate all too many middle-class Americans. I appreciate the honest manner in which the report exposed both the coercion of corporations and the complicity of Congress. WILLIAM OVERLY Lancaster...
...protestors’ actions also violated HLS’s Protest and Dissent Guidelines. The guidelines explicitly state that, “A dissenter must not substantially interfere with a speaker’s ability to communicate…Chanting or making other sustained or repeated noise in a manner which substantially interferes with the speaker’s communication is not permitted.” Students have the ability to shape campus debate in many ways—one of which is by inviting high profile and controversial speakers to campus. As long as a speaker is sponsored...
...young Bradman, he devised a simple solo game that soldered into his technique the basics of watching the ball and a straight bat. Like Ian and Greg Chappell, he had a brother who loved cricket as much as he did, and together they played till dark on all manner of surfaces, ever desperate to outdo each other. Both Steve and Mark Waugh became players of distinction. But while Mark was the more stylish, it was Steve who retired with a Test batting average of over 50, and Steve who became an Australian captain, with a 71% winning record...
...that way. The study calls that pressure "style compliance"; to Hewlett, it's "bleached-out professionalism." African-American women struggle most with perceptions of their behavior; 30% feel they are seen as "troublemakers." Jennifer Braxton, 31, held a communications job at a prestigious Philadelphia think tank. But her exuberant manner at meetings took her white male bosses aback. Other minorities who worked there suggested that she "lie low, not make any waves," says Braxton. "I'm outspoken. I'm passionate. I didn't want to have to change that." She left the think tank and became a community-outreach supervisor...
...Assistant Vice President for Public Safety James F. McShane said that the Department of Education had not helped universities to interpret the Clery Act until this past June. The department’s new handbook attempts to “assist...in a step-by-step and readable manner, in meeting the regulatory requirements of the Clery Act,” according to the handbook’s introduction. McShane said that before the guidelines’ release—which will affect next year’s statistics, but not those of 2004— Columbia?...