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...Next week, an emergency E.U. delegation will arrive in Washington to plead with the administration to change its mind. How do they hope to persuade Bush that he's wrong...
...Europe is understandably furious, with Sweden - which currently holds the chair of the European Union - describing Bush's move as "appalling and provocative," and the EU vowing to send a top-level delegation to plead with Bush to reverse his decision. But the President is unlikely to be swayed by Scandinavian invective, or even by Europe's reasoned entreaties to take global warming more seriously, after essentially rejecting the same advice from his environment secretary, Christie Whitman. Bush made clear Thursday that he was willing to work with U.S. allies to address the question of global warming, but would...
...gestures, unless someone is smoking (and in Chinese films, everybody smokes, all the time). All these movies drop one big hint: in a totalitarian society, where anyone may be a government snitch, it's best to keep one's feelings and agenda hidden. To speak up, to shout or plead, is to be noticed; to be noticed is to risk being denounced. Best to blend into the scenery, to seem a gray person in a gray nation. Or to be a twisted bureaucrat (in He Jianjun's Postman or Ning Ying's On the Beat, both 1995). Only then will...
...employer should relegate workers to bad jobs. For-profit organizations plead market competition to justify their increasing use of temporary and contract workers. Regardless of the dubious validity of this rationale, profits are not a consideration for non-profit organizations--particularly educational institutions. Given Harvard's long history and unparalleled wealth, survival is hardly an issue. Why then should Harvard emulate for-profits in its treatment of non-professional staff? Any growth of non-standard workers at Harvard and our University's unwillingness to commit to a living wage and standard benefits for all its de jure and de facto...
...racket is proliferating so rapidly that alarmed FBI agents went public Thursday, well before they were ready to identify the bad guys and make arrests, to plead with e-tailers to fix the holes in their systems. "It's like walking down a row of stores, shaking the doorknobs and seeing which ones open up," says an agent in charge of the investigation...