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...Lhasa: Streets with Memories, by Robert Barnett, is, on its surface, a meditation on the city's past and future by a lecturer at Columbia University in New York, who draws heavily on such cultural icons as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and Italo Calvino. But underneath the high-toned exterior, it is something much more interesting: Barnett spends part of each year in Lhasa, and appears in no hurry to alienate his Chinese hosts; at the same time, he was one of the few foreigners to witness the demonstrations Tibetans staged in Lhasa in 1987, and so can understand...
...perpetuate himself in government, I fear chaos and civil war," he says. History isn't heartening. In 46 years, no democratically elected Nigerian President has successfully handed power to a democratically elected successor. Many still hope that next year Obasanjo will be the first to do so. But Bassie Roland Bassey, national secretary of the Obasanjo Solidarity Forum, says the country needs stability more than change: "You need someone who can hold the country together, who can hold the military together, who can hold the militias together. We believe that person is the President. Why change?" That's a sentiment...
Psychologists call lying a form of impression management--an extension of the common human impulse to look better in someone else's eyes. "It's a way to resolve the discrepancy between the average applicant you think you are and the ideal applicant you think they seek," says Roland Kidwell, associate professor at the University of Wyoming's College of Business, who has researched rsum padding. Lies about education are perhaps prevalent because only 35% of employers say they "always" verify degrees conferred, says S.H.R.M...
...extracurriculars...I would not have the time.” “Now that it’s paid, it seems so much more appealing,” Siddiqui said. “I think it makes a lot more qualified people want to apply.” Roland C. Nadler ’09, who applied to be a peer advising fellow, said that applicants who applied only for the money would be weeded out by the application process. The preliminary application, aside from requesting standard academic, extracurricular and contact information, included two short answer questions: what piece...
...explores security operations under successive French Interior Ministers, and quotes former police officers as saying they had seen suspected extremists brutalized, given electric shocks and otherwise abused. In response, current Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy ordered an internal police investigation, and promised action against any wrongdoing. But independent terrorism expert Roland Jacquard says that cases of security forces violating suspects' rights have become "sadly common in democracies around the world" as the rush to save lives takes precedent over human rights. "At times, police forces feel they can't afford to observe rules against foes they know are fighting with...