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...result of the raids, wedding coordinators are now offering cake, a band and beefy security guards. On the day of the wedding, the coordinator shows up with a handful of men--dressed discreetly in suits and ties, with walkie-talkie earpieces--who surround a private home. Often the guards use cones to set up a roadblock down the street, so that if police arrive there will be sufficient time to warn those inside. In many cases, the wedding coordinator is able to fend off the police with an ample bribe (cash or cases of alcohol, which can later be resold...
...growing number of non-German engineers is a result of economics and education. Countries like India, China and the Czech Republic are producing highly qualified engineers who are less expensive than their German counterparts. And it's not just engineers who are caught in the global squeeze. In 2004 Siemens extracted an agreement from its workforce at two mobile-phone-handset plants in Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort to work longer hours and accept a cut in holiday pay. Frustrated union leaders say they were blackmailed into eating what amounted to a 20% wage cut. "We had to accept these terms...
Both Harvard and the Quakers finished with 14-6 records in league play, but the Crimson got home field as a result of its sweep of Penn in its Ivy opener...
Last year, the College began to implement its new life sciences curriculum. The first step was the creation of Life Sciences 1a and 1b as introductory courses into any Life Sciences track. The result was predictable. Life Science 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution” received a CUE score on average one point lower than other natural science courses with a quarter of its veterans recommending for people to not take the course...
...that sacred elephant-burial ground where concentrations go to die. All the biological anthropology classes from the tutorials on up have been renumbered to HEB classes. Students who attempted to get a study card signed for biological anthropology were encouraged by the department to strongly consider HEB. As a result, biological anthropology has gone from a small but lively concentration to one in which at the beginning of this semester only three sophomores still exist...