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...million Average annual pay, excluding stock options, earned by his predecessor, Robert Nardelli, who stepped down Jan. 2, partly over the size of his compensation...
Maybe Congress has tools to rein in our willful President other than reducing war funding. Since we no longer have a draft, manpower is limited. But Congress should prohibit sending National Guard or Reserve units overseas. Another approach would be to reduce the size of the armed forces and prohibit the retention of personnel beyond the term of enlistment...
...next little thing on the international travel scene. The Balkan nation joined the European Union on Jan. 1, with blue flags waving in the streets on New Year's Eve, yet only in recent years have tourists ventured much beyond Black Sea beach towns and into the Ohio-size expanse of rose farms, medieval monasteries and Roman ruins. Visitors, especially Western Europeans, are flocking to ski resorts in the Rila and Pirin mountains and have even sparked a property boom in Bansko, where investors are scooping up cheap vacation homes. Meanwhile, low-cost labor, economic incentives and proximity...
What the squad lacks in size, however, may be made up in its team speed. Harvard’s offensive reigns now sit squarely on the shoulders of its captain, the team’s leading remaining scorer at 15.5 points per game...
...calls the student CUE evaluation an “incomplete and imperfect” means of assessment and recommends that the faculty explore additional forms of evaluation. Still, the task force was “unequivocal” in recommending that all professors who teach classes over a certain size be required to submit themselves for CUE evaluation, Skocpol said. That measure would be one of the few proposals requiring an official vote of the Faculty, according to Skocpol, although she said discussion of the report’s broader findings would most likely be on the docket...