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...Swahili teacher,” says Pillsbury. “There were a lot of specific grammatical rules I wasn’t familiar with, but Professor Mugane was always really supportive.”WHAT’S IN AN AGE?Despite their doubts about age and merit, the TFs seem to be succeeding at their jobs. In her first year, Pillsbury scored above a 4.5 CUE rating and won an award for her teaching. “Leah obviously knows the material really well, and she’s still in college so she also relates...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hakuna Matata! | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...does business in Sudan, one year later, it had $10.1 million directly invested in the two companies. According to its the latest federal filing, Harvard owned $15.7 million of the two companies as of the end of last year through mutual funds. If the original investment was enough to merit divestment, this surely is, so Harvard should drop this stock immediately.We disagree, however, with the idea of a strict, preemptive policy rule. Harvard has only divested a few times in its history, and for good reason. As Interim President Derek C. Bok pointed out in a 1979 open letter that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Indirectly Divesting | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...legal counsel openly contradict one another. The vice chancellor for finance, Ray Newman, contends that doctors are due compensation for work at Charity Hospital (which produces revenues for the university of $20 million to $30 million in payments), even as general counsel John Beal says the physicians merit no payment: "They provide the service as part of our community-service obligation." Still, Tulane officials dismiss Marrogi's complaints (as well as his lawsuit for unspecified damages) as having no basis in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEAD WRONG? | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...Anderson denies both the charge and the alleged motivation: "To suggest that my staff and I conspired to push students out of school to ensure higher test scores is a theory that is without merit," he said in an e-mail. "As a school community Myers Park works diligently to help all students succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Top School Forcing Out Low-Performing Students? | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...There's merit to the points made by both Petraeus and Satterfield, according to Antony Cordesman, a military strategy expert with Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legitimate Role for Iraq's Militias? | 3/11/2007 | See Source »

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