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...leadership to critical thinking and communication skills. The recent slump, though, may be helping narrow the skills gap in a surprising way. Although generous social-welfare systems in industrialized countries such as Germany and Britain make it easy for the laid off to wait around for a factory to reopen, Americans tend to take the initiative during a downturn, getting educated or trained for a better job and in the process adding to the country's stock of human capital. Applications to graduate programs in everything from law and business to education and engineering are up from last year...
Nearly a year after Harvard ousted the upscale restaurant from its long-standing location in the Hasty Pudding building, Upstairs at the Pudding announced yesterday that it will reopen this fall with the new name Upstairs on the Square...
...hoped to get Arafat to renounce violence without a reciprocal commitment from Sharon to do anything more than ease up on security measures. That approach has failed. But if the endpoint is a two-state solution, then there's no harm in combining cease-fire efforts with moves to reopen negotiations over ending the occupation. The counter-argument has been that this would "reward violence." But that's simply denial of the obvious - the only reason the Israelis started talking to the Palestinians in the first place was because they were in a state of violent rebellion. The Oslo process...
...mosque, sat on the actual birthplace of Rama. For a century-and-a-half, Hindus and Muslims squabbled over the mosque. For Hindus, reclaiming the site is more about punishing the Muslims for the Islamic invasions and partioning of the subcontinent in 1947 - in other words, a chance to reopen old wounds. For Muslims, the mosque was an ugly wreck, but it was a touchstone of the secular policy of postindependence India: Would the politicians treat them with respect, or succumb to Hindu sentiment to hold onto or gain political power...
...University has begun talks with dining service workers and security guards and will officially reopen their contracts in the coming weeks. PSLM members say they will also be involved in these negotiations...