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...close-ups or an outburst from an aggrieved Hasty Pudding-ite in four-inch heels. Where was the bad theme music? Judge Ito? The white Explorer? The New York Post headline? But there were no such unseemly antics in yesterday’s episode of Harvard shocker: just two quiet and decorous “not guilty” pleas. From my vantage point in the second row on the left, when they rose to face the music, the dramatic duo barely exchanged glances. They may not be friends anymore, but in at least one sphere, they can never...
TIME: Who are your skiing role models? Menyoli: The guy who really amazes me right now is Per Elofsson. I like that he is quiet. He doesn't want a lot of attention. He just races...
...There's a lot of shrapnel up here," says a Senate staff member. "People are keeping their heads down." But businesses and their lobbyists don't like the idea, arguing that the restrictions would push employers to stop offering matching contributions. They fought Boxer's 1997 bill until it quietly died in committee. One person keeping quiet is Phil Gramm, usually a leading opponent of such restrictions. Gramm's wife Wendy served on the audit committee of Enron's board, and the Texas Senator has recused himself from Enron matters. His fellow Republicans are also holding their fire...
...ever want simply to spend a nice, quiet Valentine's Day alone...
Last Thursday marked a quiet watershed in labor relations at Harvard University. After a delay of several weeks past the comment period he had set, President Lawrence H. Summers finally released a statement agreeing to adopt many of the “core recommendations” of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, including a significant one-time wage increase and the principle of wage parity for outsourced and in-house workers. In addition to major concrete gains for workers, the decision contained an important revelation. After all that fuss in and around Mass. Hall last spring...