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...plan comes as part of the Harvard College Library’s (HCL) ongoing reorganization, which also includes the restructuring of Hilles and Lamont. Severe budget problems facing the department also have made for tension between library employees and administrators...
Cline says the move to minimize costs may be behind tension over the Gov Docs move...
...Harvard, whatever change there has been in the past has generally been change that results from growth-happy change. This is a very different kind of change, and I think that’s part of what makes it very unsettling. There’s an inherent tension in that for almost all of our employees...
...Lanka still has a lot of catching up to do. In 1977 it became the first South Asian country to dismantle its socialist economy. Foreign investment was welcomed, and from 1977-84 the economy grew by 6% a year. But in July 1983, long-simmering tension between the nation's Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority led to violent anti-Tamil riots, and the country plunged into civil war. By 1987, Sri Lanka's growth rate had halved. Tourism and tea exports remained relatively strong, and in the 1990s, Sri Lankans fancied that the country's economy had learned...
...Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could have been a winning story...