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...adviser for undergraduates at the Harvard International Office, HuQing Piemonte, noted that while Kim’s situation is not the norm, advisors at the office are trained for situations such as these...
There is, however, a higher purpose to all that digital sarcasm. Most salespeople who broadcast the stories of their rude customers hope to shame others into acting better, says retail veteran Norm Feuti, who spent 15 years working as a manager at a host of stores. Instead of blogging or just complaining, Feuti created a comic strip, Retail, now syndicated in 43 newspapers, depicting the staff at the fictional department store Grumbel's. Feuti is an equal-opportunity scold. His strip features not just the customers chatting on their cell phones in the checkout line but also the clerks...
...policymakers who once might have glossed over her frustration as a side effect of sudden change are thinking twice. "Katrina showed government's failure to respond, and we can't afford those failures again," says Republican Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. A quarter of the 24 million people now enrolled in Medicare Part D are "dual eligibles," people who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare. In other words, they are among the poorest and frailest people in the country. More than 70% of them make less than $10,000 a year; 372,000 of them have Alzheimer's. Republicans realize...
...cross-register for classes at other Harvard schools, erasing some of the synergy that students could theoretically enjoy as part of a larger University. The College’s schedule is nearly unique. In the Ivy League, only Princeton shares our strange after-break finals schedule. While not the norm, our schedule is also worth keeping. Holding finals after break allows for a long Reading Period. Any College student will tell you that the existing week and a half long Reading Period is crucial to his absorption of course material. Changing finals to before the holiday break would necessitate...
...reader, you may not meet the editor-in-chief all that often. But I wanted you to appreciate what a good friend and advocate you've had in Norm for the past 11 years, and to be as enthusiastic as I am about the extraordinary magazine experience--on paper and beyond--that I'm certain John Huey will bring you in the years ahead...