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...surmise that Harvard’s administrators likely spend much more time shaking the hands and sharing the confidences of the rich and powerful than they do finding out the names, fears, dreams, and wisdom of the janitors, cooks, and guards who, in that long-lived tradition of master-servant relations, labor invisibly each day,” Jehn wrote in the Globe article.Preceptors also continue to voice objection to the current system of one-year contracts—which preceptors have protested denies them job security—and a five-year limit on working in the position...
...feels artificial as the story itself gets more dynamic. Still, the alternation lets Wray probe Will’s psyche from a number of different angles without having to stop and reflect, Victorian novel-style. Lateef, on the other hand, is a stock character; the spiritually exhausted public servant, who experiences a mid-career crisis of confidence and develops an inappropriate affection for Violet Heller. Somehow it seems like this is supposed to illustrate the novel’s metaphysical import. It just doesn’t really work...
...Born in 1942 in the remote, poverty-stricken area of Inkandla, South Africa, to a policeman father who died when he was 3. His mother later found work as a domestic servant...
...with Joseph Fiennes in 2007. This year brings Endgame, a thriller about the secret talks to end apartheid starring William Hurt and Jonny Lee Miller. In February, as Ving Rhames was wrapping Master Harold . . .and the Boys - a film about the relationship between a white boy and his black servant - Damon and Freeman arrived for their rugby turn. (See pictures of the best Oscar dresses...
...There was no memo, no guidance. This is the opinion of a career civil servant.' U.S. Office of Management and Budget spokesman KENNETH BAER, on an e-mail from the Defense Department declaring that George W. Bush's phrase war on terror would be replaced by overseas contingency operation...