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...College also last year instituted a mandatory seminar on accounting procedures to be held each fall for student group leaders...
Similarly, it is questionable whether the promises of increased civic participation made after the attacks have translated into action, says Thomas H. Sander, executive director of the Kennedy School’s Saguaro Seminar, who is in the process of measuring the impact of Sept. 11 on civic engagement...
...union, though, remains profoundly suspicious of GM's intentions. In May, just after the deal was signed, Zahner held a seminar at the Bupyeong plant for about 100 unionists to describe GM's vision of Daewoo's future, stressing the need for Daewoo to be part of a global company. One leader, Cho Ha Soo, began grilling Zahner. Cho called GM's acquisition "stealing," and demanded that the company clarify its position on layoffs. He accused Zahner of evading his questions. After the tense exchange, Zahner singled out Cho and said, "Starting today, we're going to be friends...
...perambulations would be tightly restricted by the North Korean government. Indeed, our itinerary proved to have been carefully pre-packaged. At the Grand People's Study House, a library overlooking Kim Il Sung Square with its giant portraits of Marx and Lenin, our North Korean hosts arranged a seminar on what life was like under the Japanese. In a lecture hall upstairs, the Japanese audience listened to Kwak Kum Nyo, 76, describe how she became a comfort woman at 16 when Japanese police ordered the manager of the silk factory where she worked to pick 20 girls with "good physiques...
...Immediately following September 11, the Defense Policy Board convened a two-day seminar at which it was generally agreed that removing Saddam should be one of the objectives of the U.S. war on terrorism, even in the absence of any link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The point was underscored, on September 20 in an open letter to President Bush by Perle and a number of prominent conservatives (many of them Defense Policy Board members). "Even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the [September 11] attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must...