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...policy issue you’re always going to have some people who disagree. We found that the most effective way to deal with questions of this type is to go along with the platform of the national party,” she said...
...computer maker has seen sales drop for 12 straight quarters and recently announced 3,300 layoffs. Trying to brighten that darkness is the ponytailed Schwartz, 38, the firm's new COO. He most recently ran Sun's software division, where he headed new strategies for deploying Sun's Java platform. One ongoing initiative: a push into markets such as China and India, where Microsoft doesn't have a stranglehold and Sun can more easily sell its systems for desktops and devices...
...that the College further diversify its curriculum to include more classes that deal with the art, literature, philosophy, social science and history of people of color worldwide. The newly-proposed “Harvard College Courses,” with their interdiscliplinary approaches to traditional questions, provide a perfect platform for the College to increase the visibility and importance of non-Western approaches to knowledge. A global citizen of the 21st century should be able to draw on a plethora of cultural and intellectual traditions when making decisions...
...portly man who has been suspected of wearing platform shoes and having an unhealthy appetite for movies--and movie stars--can be expected to be the butt of jokes. But North Korea's Dear Leader is no laughing matter. Since his accession to power on the death of his father Kim Il Sung, in 1994, Kim Jong Il has shown that an economic basket case of a state, which at times has been unable to feed its people, and which is brutally authoritarian, can still manage to keep the great powers off balance--so long as it has, or plausibly...
...Marseilles plaintiffs. "But it's virtually impossible if our entire day is spent trying to scrape enough together to simply survive." It often seems the government itself is in survival mode when it comes to controlling spending. Though Raffarin and his conservative partners swept into office on a reformist platform in 2002, they've become caught in the pincers of economic stagnation and growing public dissatisfaction. Efforts to nurture growth and job creation by cutting taxes and employee payroll charges and tightening pension schemes have done little more than further bloat France's budget deficit well beyond...