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...problem with student-staff relations. I think students took an unfair share of the blame,” McCarthy says. “The improvements that SAC was trying to make, was making, weren’t happening quickly enough, so the staff decided to start from scratch. “Many students were upset because they perceived the restructuring as a personal attack. Just as there had been miscommunication before, there was a lot of miscommunication during the dissolution,” McCarthy says...
...problem with student-staff relations. I think students took an unfair share of the blame,” McCarthy says. “The improvements that SAC was trying to make, was making, weren’t happening quickly enough, so the staff decided to start from scratch. “Many students were upset because they perceived the restructuring as a personal attack. Just as there had been miscommunication before, there was a lot of miscommunication during the dissolution,” McCarthy says...
...bright February morning in Harlem, Jean Sanders shook Bill Clinton's hand. Just one week out of prison, Sanders had risen early and put on a suit to come uptown from Brooklyn and apply for low-income housing--one of the first stops after scratch for former felons starting over. Clinton happened to be looking for office space in the same building that day. Plunging into the frenzy of cameras and adoring well-wishers, Sanders jostled and sweet-talked his way to the front of the throng and welcomed the former President to the neighborhood. It was hard...
...crisis - at least in the U.S. The President has been able to rally the country from both the rostrum and the rubble pile. Mention this evolution to the Bush team and you'll get howls. He was always thus, they complain: Bush has not suddenly grown talents from scratch; he has merely shifted his focus. When concentrating on specific tasks with identifiable goals, he has always performed well...
...consist of a normal letter coated with some kind of microbes, viruses, that can withstand dryness for quite some time and still maintain its capability of multiplying...enough to coat the letter and guarantee it reaches its destination as deadly to the human being, either orally or through a scratch in the skin, and gets him infected with a contagious sickness that resolves into his death...CHEMICAL LETTERS...consist of a normal letter coated with some mustard agent or other poisons. This method is not yet deployed for fear of the reaction on an international level...