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...over many tongues - in many tongues - as the Convention for the Future of Europe began last week. The meeting of the 105 delegates to the Convention, drawn from the 15 current European Union member states and 13 candidate countries, is tasked with solving some of the E.U.'s most stubborn conundrums. How to accord the necessary power to E.U. institutions without giving up the democratic control that now resides mostly in national capitals? How to untangle the often overlapping competences of local, regional, national and Continental governments? At a scheduled pace of one session a month under the stern leadership...
...pace of his progress has carried a stiff price—a trail of professors extending far past the Department of Afro-American Studies is uneasy with a style they characterize as inattentive and stubborn rather than merely assertive and direct. While a faculty with more than 400 tenured members has a broad spectrum of opinions, professors say grumblings about the President’s style are emanating from many corners of the Faculty...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies have implied it is in their repeated exaltations of the collective bargaining process. Rather, if you go the Sheraton Commander today at 10 a.m. (negotiations are every Tuesday and open to students) you will see Harvard at its worst: condescending, arrogant, rude, stubborn and, at times, downright dishonest...
...domestic economic policy front, he faces a bureaucracy as stubborn as that which opposed Tanaka. The aggressive head of the inspection division of the Financial Services Agency, Hirofumi Gomi, has been tenaciously reviewing the loan portfolios of Japan's leading banks and the balance sheets of debtor companies. The verdict: more bad debt than was previously estimated. But plans to take the results of Gomi's audits and crack down on corporate slackers is being stymied by higher-ups within his own agency. "Koizumi needs to make a decision and fire some people," says an analyst who has advised...
Cipro was just another antibiotic used mostly for treating stubborn infections when it was catapulted to pharmaceutical stardom by the anthrax attacks. Cipro, it turned out, was the only antibiotic specifically approved by the FDA to treat anthrax, and suddenly it was the hottest drug in town. Doctors were besieged by patients demanding prescriptions "just in case," and pharmacies, particularly in New York, Washington and Florida, couldn't keep up. Other antibiotics, including doxycycline and that old standby penicillin, are just as effective against the particular strain that was showing up in tainted letters, and a few weeks later, when...