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Still, does downscaling the resident tutorial system strike a fatal blow to the famed House system and risk turning our Houses into, gasp, plain old dorms? Certainly not. While resident tutors do play role in broadening the pool of people with whom students can interact and learn, plenty of other options exist to make this happen. The Houses' ailing senior common room system has the most potential to infuse the Houses with scholars. Yet in its current state, it too has a long...
...press, police summoned Liu and warned her to avoid further publicity if she didn't want her brother's life to get worse. Last week during the visit of U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights Mary Robinson to Beijing, both Liu and Zhang were kept under close police scrutiny. Plain clothes cops wielding video cameras even followed them to the park where they often meet to chat during their morning exercises. Fearful of what the police might do, Liu didn't dare talk to her friend. She met Zhang's worried gaze with a nod of her head and returned...
Like its drama-inflected ancestor Sports Night, The Job incorporates elements that would be trite on a plain-old drama, such as the shaky, handheld camera. But here they're starkly funny and McNeil an arresting (sorry) puzzle. He's also the sort of character who makes network execs pop Mylanta as he pops pills. So Leary and Tolan were surprised when ABC actively recruited them. "We said, 'You'll never buy it,'" recalls Leary. "'We're not going to change the language. We're not going to change the behavior.' And they said, 'Don't worry about it.'" Indeed...
...Still, Kim's visit provided further evidence of the foreign policy fault lines within the new administration, with the hawks fighting back against what they perceive as a dovish streak in the secretary of state, while a novice President quickly learns that the plain-speakin' style of the campaign trail can be disastrous in international affairs...
...contributions to the company's stock; in plans that match with stock the typical employee directs 29.3% of his or her own contributions to the company's stock. Employees tend to view the match as an endorsement of that investing strategy, which is plain silly...