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Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 summarizes the phenomenon as “giving higher grades for the same work for which in the past one would have given lower grades...
...section are more aimed at convincing a restless public that the featured designer is “on the edge” and “trendy” rather than inspiring spontaneous shopping frenzies. It’s sort of an Emperor’s New Clothes phenomenon: No one is going to be caught dead in the translucent white, yellow chest-belted shirt of Frank Lingnau and Tom Schumacher’s “Notebook 5,” unless of course it’s the “in thing,” in which...
...divorce rate in the U.S. peaked in 1981. Now the kids of that generation have reached prime marrying age. How have their feelings toward marriage--and behavior within it--been shaped by their experience? A new book says at least one repercussion is a phenomenon known as the "starter marriage," a union between those in their 20s and early 30s who marry for five years or less and divorce without having kids. Author Pamela Paul, whose first marriage failed within a year, is a little short on hard evidence, since no statistics exist on the topic. She based her conclusions...
...That theme was picked up and made explicit at the opening plenary - the best I've ever seen at a Davos. Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said "Terrorism and poverty are twins of each other." Bono, in a series of interventions, nagged away at what he called the "annoying" phenomenon of inequality, and challenged the WEF delegates to commit themselves to ameliorating poverty as a goal for this year's conference. He was, of course, warmly applauded. Cynics will tell you that that reveals everything you need to know about Davos - that it is a collection of fat cats congratulating...
...Hamas and its spin-off, Islamic Jihad, as well as the various components of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including Arafat's party, Fatah. Contacts on this level helped foster similar ties on the military front. "Joint attacks," notes a senior official in Israeli military intelligence, "are not a marginal phenomenon lately." The links between these organizations, as well as between the Islamists and the official security forces of the Authority, have become so complex and active that the Shin Bet, the Israeli version of the FBI, has set up a sophisticated computer program to keep track of them...