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Others expressed similar enthusiasm at the prospect of a Ivy-decorated Belgian breakfast...
...situation that these eight Tulane freshmen were thrust into during this dark summer. It’s true that Harvard is the only college they have ever known; it’s equally true that having to undergo the college acclimation process a second time is not an appealing prospect. Nevertheless, these concerns are the products of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, not of Harvard’s lack of hospitality. In the fall, these students had nowhere to go, and Harvard offered to fill this void until the crisis had passed. Now, Tulane is able and eager...
What really scares Wall Street is the prospect of a Delphi strike. Goldman Sachs estimates that a Delphi work stoppage could shut down GM factories at a cost of $2 billion a month, causing GM to burn through its cash reserves at a deadly clip. "A strike could push them over the edge," says Steven Szakaly, an economist with the Center for Automotive Research. Unions representing Delphi workers have described the bankrupt company's latest offer--cutting wages from an average $27 an hour to $10.50 for production staff--as "insulting," and U.A.W. chief Ron Gettelfinger has described Delphi boss...
...working from such unreliable intelligence need not be explained. In the face of inefficiency, inaccuracy, and the danger of torturing innocents, the consideration of torture as a viable method for interrogation is dubious at best. Considering the host of moral and ethical issues which also accompany torture, the prospect of its legalization is absolutely absurd...
Perhaps none of the dread offspring archetypes--the thumb sucker, the binky addict, the colicky screamer--is more feared than the bad sleeper, and parents will try any formula that offers the prospect of some rest. Sleep manuals outsell even the baby bible What to Expect When You're Expecting. For years, parents have clung to competing sleep-training camps (Never wake a sleeping baby! No naps in the stroller!) in hopeful desperation. So when Dr. Richard Ferber, author of the best-selling 1985 book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, seemingly backpedaled on his signature "cry it out" technique...