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...That has some advantages. Europeans in their 20s retain only hazy memories of the ideological struggle that divided Europe for 50 years. As a result, many young adults in the E.U. tend to be enthusiastic about extending membership to Eastern and Central European countries. Says Sara Priem, 24, president of the Young European Movement, a British pro-Europe grassroots group: "It's one of those issues that's easy to be strong on because everyone agrees with it. The Berlin Wall came down when we were 10 or 11, so for us those in the east are part of Europe...
...earn the Cambridge living wage in addition to benefits. One is a small group of regular Harvard employees. The second comprises workers employed by Harvard on a part-time or temporary basis. Their marginal status means that in addition to their low pay, they are ineligible for union membership, typically do not receive benefits, lack job security and work fewer hours than they prefer. The third group includes subcontracted workers whose de jure employer is a firm with whom Harvard holds a contract but whose de facto employer is Harvard. Members of the third group, who work in custodial, dining...
...task force spent a long period discussing the qualifications for membership in the IOP and whether these could be opened further. Before Pryor's move to dissolve the student government, only few students were given voting rights within...
...makes. But the old-line manufacturers balked. In fact, Dicke's father was among Matchbid's foremost opponents, arguing that the Internet could destroy his business by increasing price transparency and driving down margins. Dicke tried everything to woo his father, including giving him a year's free membership in the exchange for his 70th birthday last September. "He couldn't convince his father - this was the message that was in the market," says Geibel. "Customers didn't trust...
...drop the SAT, by what means should we allot membership in the nation's elite? Of course, plenty of people make movies and play in the major leagues and run companies and write for magazines without high SATs. But good scores sure don't hurt. Besides, don't they measure something valuable--something beyond the diligence it takes to memorize the details of the Franco-Prussian War for a history exam? Much of the debate over the SAT boils down to this: Assuming we can measure innate intelligence, do we want a society that rewards genes? Are we afraid...