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While the program is currently modest in scope--only four laptops are available for loaning--organizers said they anticipate future expansion...
...There was a time when searches were done by a few trustees who would call a friend of theirs in the Harvard Club," McLaughlin says. "As searches became national in scope, the complexity of managing the process meant search firms could help. National search firms can send the message that it's really an open search...
...vote Tuesday, the highest court thwacked the turn-of-the-millennium's biggest antitrust case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C., which will only be too happy to play its part: Pruning the case's issues down to a more svelte size and scope before making its decision. Tactically, the decision is a disappointment for the Justice Department and a score for Microsoft, which has gotten some good treatment at Appeals' hands in the past and thinks it has some good procedural beefs to take to it this time...
Though the class's scope--a spry mix of classics, convicts, and the famously defiant--may discourage the sluggish, the burden falls square with most Moral Reasoning cores: two five- to-seven page papers, short response papers graded with checks and midterm and final exams...
Understandably, Firestone may wish to limit the scope of the recall in order not to risk tarnishing its entire brand or setting off a panic. But when the public is questioning the brand across the board, "perception," notes Susan Bixler, president of the Professional Image consulting firm in Atlanta, "is more powerful than reality...