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...chair of the Administrative Board, Lewis runs meetings with a heavy hand, according to several former senior tutors, who say members of the Ad Board are forced to passively follow the lead of the man to whom they owe their jobs...
...major letdown on Saturday night,” Prasse-Freeman said. “We’ve reset our goals to win each game [from now on]. We owe it to ourselves and our season to bring...
...wages. After several months of frustration, I asked a prominent and articulate member of PSLM for an explanation of his position on a living wage and for his answers to the questions that it posed. What are the criteria for determining an adequate wage? Do employers owe obligations to their employees as individuals, or to the society in which they are hired? What are the boundaries of the “community” so often cited in these debates, and what role does it play in their resolution...
...civilians by actors who aren't part of a nation's formal machinery of state. Within that field, it's possible to identify two subcategories. "Political" terrorists have an identifiable goal, which may be precisely that of mainstream politicians. "Millenarian" terrorists are different. They have no political agenda and owe their allegiance not to any institutions or geographical expressions on earth but to a higher authority in heaven. The classic examples of the first are the armed wings of national liberation movements, like the Irish Republican Army, Israel's Stern Gang and Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military...
...marvel to ourselves. "It's like a clean slate." The workers are carrying our demons for us, having removed them from our sight. They'll struggle to exorcise their memories of glass and steel and gore for longer than most of us can imagine. And for that alone, we owe these men and women our gratitude - as well as our compassion...