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...liken this situation to that of modern-day Arabs. Cheever is apparently unaware of the concept of Pan-Arabism, which, along with Islamism, ranks as one of the strongest political trends in the Arab world today. Indeed, the religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity among Native American peoples stands in stark contrast to the religious, cultural, and ethnic uniformity of the Arab world. Here, Cheever seems to be arguing a point that is simply false...
...possible reason for the lenience and benevolence of the Sparknotes management is that they know their writers’ status as Harvard students is one of the major drawcards. In stark contrast to the attitudes sorrounding other, somewhat ill-reputed study guides on the market, Yagan asserts that “teachers and parents actually like their kids to read Sparknotes…we are even on the syllabus in some schools”. Hawkins contests that the “study guides such as Cliff’s Notes and Monarch notes are outdated, some written pre-Cold...
...Variable pay "is a shock absorber." So much so, in fact, that today it could be helping to keep unemployment as much as a full percentage point lower than it would otherwise be--a savings worth 1.4 million jobs--according to Harvard University economist Richard Freeman. It's a stark contrast to the dark days of the Great Depression when, as economist John Maynard Keynes famously wrote, rigid wages exacerbated the situation by giving employers little choice but to hand workers their walking papers...
...Karkhla plain is a stark portrait of Afghanistan's plight: one of the world's poorest and most battle-scarred people, plagued by superpower struggles and their own tribal and ethnic feuds, reduced to fleeing to neighboring countries to do menial work for a beggar's wage. Afghans are on their knees, and only international aid can help them back to their feet. "There is nothing in Afghanistan," says Ibrahim Khan Shinwari, Farras' father, who brought his family from the village of Battan in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province two years ago to make bricks for the GI Brick Co., owned...
Running backs Josh Staph and Nick Palazzo are living a dream behind the Crimson’s most potent weapon, its offensive line. Seniors Danny Kistler, Justin Stark, Jason Hove, Steve Collins and junior Jamil Soriano form the Ivy’s best offensive line...