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...seeing how people respond." Marketing for feminine-hygiene products always presents a particular challenge, since riding the cotton pony is nobody's favorite topic of conversation. (Unless you count some feminist academics.) Menstruation remains, if not taboo, then still pretty damn awkward to talk about. Hence the number of euphemisms this story employs. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...Earlier this spring, a number of subcontracted janitors were laid off at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Real Estate Services, prompting student protests and even a vigil for the workers. American Cleaning Company laid off 11 employees but then rehired two at HMS, and OneSource laid off seven at properties administered by HRES, Langley said. He added that due to a contract swap and reduction, Unicco also lost two employees at HRES...
...increased its number of faculty positions in the late 1990s and early 2000s by almost 40 percent, and new programs such as the Center for Public Leadership and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy were launched largely through deficit spending. These initiatives had been paid for during economic booms by the growing endowment, but when the national economy slumped early in the decade, the expenditures coalesced into a deficit and forced HKS officials to take steps to eliminate the budget gap. Overhead costs, for everything from electricity bills to equipment, were furthermore magnified by the School's expansion...
...report states that "the ill-treatment and torture" of Palestinian child prisoners "appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized, suggesting complicity at all levels of the political and military chain of command." The group's director, Rifaat Kassis, says the number of child arrests rose sharply in the past six months, possibly because of a crackdown on Palestinian protests in the West Bank in the aftermath of Israel's military offensive in Gaza...
...number of factors drove the decision - financial, political, personal - but chief among them was the desire to worship without being on display. Obama was reportedly taken aback by the circus stirred up by his visit to 19th Street Baptist in January. Lines started forming three hours before the morning service, and many longtime members were literally left out in the cold as the church filled with outsiders eager to see the new President. Even at St. John's, which is so accustomed to presidential visitors that it is known as the "Church of the Presidents," worshippers couldn't help themselves...