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...cheaper,'" says Hadri. In a country with 8% unemployment - and over double that if you're young and have an Arab name - it's hardly surprising, he says, that "the women don't care. They just want to work." Zeenath Simozrag is a Sorbonne-educated lawyer with two master's degrees and three languages, but it still took her six months to find a job, a fact she attributes to her wearing a head scarf. She now works in a small firm, earning $1,100 for a three-day week - less than half the going rate for someone with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Through | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...related to the science complex will help us advance our partnership with the neighborhood,” said Harvard’s Director for Community Relations in Boston Kevin A. McCluskey ’76. “We look forward to working with the city to develop a master plan for the neighborhood and the many good things that can come from that...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Residents Approach Accord | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...only name that has been mentioned with consistency by students in connection with the college deanship has been that of Jay M. Harris, a professor of Jewish studies and the master of Cabot House, whose credentials include the top spot on the committee that is responsible for implementing the College’s new General Education curriculum...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New College Dean Pick To Come Soon | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

Last semester, Smith consulted a group of student representatives about the qualities students might value in a new Dean. Students mentioned Harris’s name, emphasizing that a House Master would best be able to address student concerns...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New College Dean Pick To Come Soon | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...improved during the 1970s, my coach, Alexander Nikitin, made charts to track my progress and to set goals for me. A rating above 2500 was grand master; 2600 meant membership in the Top 10; 2700 was world-champion territory. And even above that was Bobby Fischer, at the very top with 2785. I became world champion in 1985, but true to Nikitin's vision, I had an even loftier goal; it took me four full years to surpass Fischer's rating record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chessman | 1/26/2008 | See Source »

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