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Fold in green onions and white pepper. Transfer the fried rice into the halved pineapple. Garnish with some fresh cilantro...
...traveled the world during the financial panic of 1998. He worked for Summers in the Clinton Treasury Department at the time, and he and Summers became mutual admirers. That job also exposed him to many of the national-security issues that Treasury now handles, like cracking down on the transfer of funds across borders by terrorists, and the targeted application of sanctions against the leaders of rogue states...
Ontario, the industrial heartland of Canada and the home of Detroit North [its Detroit-allied auto industry], used to be considered the nation's growth engine. Now, it's become a have-not province eligible for federal transfer payments - money in part underwritten by oil-rich Newfoundland. It's an irony not lost on most Canadians, since Newfoundland has carried the mantle of neediness since joining confederation 59 years...
...that effectively pay a teacher to leave his or her job. The practice has evolved as a way to avoid the extensive hearings and appeals required by union contracts and state-labor laws in firing a tenured teacher. (Costs can run as high as $100,000). Other districts simply transfer inadequate teachers to other schools in what Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has called "the dance of the lemons." Former Mass. Gov. William Weld tried to pass legislation requiring teachers to take competency tests every five years, a move that triggered a number of complaints from local teachers' unions who called...
This year's survey highlighted one big group of students who appear to be underserved by many schools: transfer students. NSSE found some 40% of seniors had started at a different institution. Yet according to the survey respondents, transfers tend to receive some of the lowest amount of support on campus. They speak less frequently with faculty members about future plans, work less often with classmates on assignments and half the number of transfers participate in co-curricular activities at about half the rate as non-transfer students. "Schools simply must work harder to pull transfer students in because they...