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...Earlier in the day, the battalion had made an armed reconnaissance into the area and came under sporadic fire, which they suppressed with some micro-scale shock and awe. It was assumed at the time that Iraqi forces would return when the reconnaissance units departed...
...students can opt out of taking a semester of introductory economics and still receive Core credit. First-years should not have to be locked into a year-long course they hate to fulfill their Core requirement. Not everyone enrolled in Ec 10 needs to take both micro- and macroeconomics, and students should not have to do so for the sake of the Core...
...things that turn a designer's dreams into a successful brand - the ad campaigns, the company's 10 licensees (which make everything from Cavalli goblets to beaded bikinis) and the commercial collection, which buyers find in the showroom. It's thanks to Eva, for example, that the micro-mini dresses that debut on the Cavalli runway miraculously reappear there in three different lengths. "Roberto comes up with the concepts," says Sheik Majed al-Sabah, a Kuwaiti retailer who is opening two new Cavalli boutiques in the Middle East this year, "and she makes it happen. He's out with...
...evil. This levels the playing field--and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil (the dark impulse to rape or murder, say) and macro-evil (the urge to genocide) achieve an ominous reunion in any bid for the apocalyptic gesture. That's the real evil that is going around...
...From a micro business perspective, [investing in AIDS treatment] makes sense because of the productivity issue,” said Diana Barrett, Senior Lecturer at the Business School, who helped to organize the conference. “It’s good to keep your workers alive...