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...well it plays in a tough room, Benedict has certainly booked himself into a doozy. In the racial memory of Western Europe, the Turks were the face of militant Islam, besieging Vienna in 1529 and 1683 and for centuries thereafter representing a kind of stock bogeyman. In 2002, after nearly a century of determinedly secularist rule, the country elected a moderate Islamist party. For many in the West, that makes Turkey simultaneously a symbol of hope (of moderation) and fear (of Islamism...
...shops will open in a few weeks. These will be a lot smaller than a typical U.S. or European supermarket - no bigger in most cases than a large convenience store, although Reliance promises that much bigger supermarkets are in the pipeline. All will be clean, air-conditioned and have stock neatly displayed on wide shelves that you don't need a ladder to reach. The convenience of shopping in just one place is sure to lure a lot of customers and small shop owners worry that the supermarkets will force them out of business. I can see they have reason...
...considered a political liability only in France. There were no nasty aspersions nor revelations about her home life. She merely proposed that middle school teachers should be compelled to be on the job for 35 hours a week. "We have an absurd system where we have companies on the stock exchange that offer catch-up courses for students, and the people teaching those courses are public sector teachers," she said on a tape officially recording a closed meeting of provincial Socialist officials in Angers last January. "How is it they have time to do paid tutoring but no time...
...literature—the task force is prepared to revise the draft between today’s meetings and the next full faculty meeting, on Dec. 12. Professors from various disciplines have begun to make suggestions for revision. In the Economics Department, according to Chair and Professor James H. Stock, faculty members believe the report overlooks the importance of their field in general education, In place of structured requirements, Stock said, he would prefer to see distribution requirements or even no requirements at all. “I trust Harvard students to make good decisions, and I think we should...
Edwards’ humanitarian venture will commercialize a technique he developed at Advanced Inhalation Research, a startup he co-founded in 1997. The startup’s founders sold their firm to Alkermes Inc. in 1999—netting $22 million in stock for Edwards, according to The Boston Globe. Two years later, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering...