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...store," notes Oliver Schabenberger, a software developer. What he values, rather, is a culture that gives him the time and freedom to think and create and collaborate with colleagues from other departments. There isn't a lot of hierarchy at SAS or rigid rules and structures, so researchers are free to do what they like. It's not Foosball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Managing: Profiting From Fun | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Gates too said Summers has been generous in supporting the department. “Every time I showed up in Mass. Hall with a proposal, after a rigorous and rigid back and forth, every time, President Summers has been right there with our department,” Gates, who is currently on leave at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, told the assembly. “I have full confidence in President Summers, and not only that, I happen to like...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Speech Earns Ovation | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...presidential election in 1974, he went on to topple Romeo Lucas García's depraved military dictatorship in 1982 - only to be ousted by another coup a year later. In 1988, retired from the military, Ríos Montt formed the frg as a foe of Guatemala's rigid and venal oligarchy - shrewdly casting himself as the kind of populist caudillo (strongman) that Latin voters still tend to favor. The Maya Indians' traditional quiet stoicism about past trauma has made it easier for Ríos Montt to sell his quasi-delusional version of the local paramilitary squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Strongman Returns | 10/5/2003 | See Source »

...music department at Harvard is often criticized for its rigid curriculum, based largely on classical music. Amidst myriad courses on bygone musical genres, the twelve-student class Music 167r, “Electroacoustic Composition,” seems slightly out of place...

Author: By Ryan Z. Cortazar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Department Warbles Way Into Modern Composition | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

...This is different from the rigid rent control we had before,” said resident Nancy Hall. She added that some property owners were seeking “profit at the expense of people’s homes and communities...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rent Control Question Divides Cambridge Residents | 9/24/2003 | See Source »

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