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...phoned the sponsoring agency, EF Au Pair of Cambridge, Massachussetts, she was stunned by their refusal to help. "They literally told us we could put her out on the street, and that she could now find her own way home," Cathy recalls. (An agency spokesman says that she is unfamiliar with the case, but that the standard response is to "do what we can" to help an au pair return home.) Instead the Lynches helped Saskia make her travel arrangements. Then, not wanting to squander their nonrefundable program fee of roughly $2,700, they demanded a replacement. This time, they...
...With an unfamiliar opera that is as powerful as Lady Macbeth, a radical staging is hardly necessary to create freshness and vigor in a production. Shostakovich's music can do that very well on its own, and all of Vick's efforts are more a hindrance than a help...
...very interesting article on why the Office of Information Technology was looking through a student's computer files in the first place, and chose instead to write a sensationalist story about an alleged flood of pornography on the Internet. This might be racy stuff to people who are unfamiliar with the Internet, but it is not news. This stuff has been there for years, and it will probably still be there for years...
Policymakers in Washington, however, are put off by the derivative debacles they have seen. The problem is that they are not sure what to do about it. Not only are most politicians unfamiliar with the financial techniques involved, but the whole field is evolving so rapidly that new legislation may be obsolete by the time it passes. "No one has any idea what the policy should be," says Bert Ely, a banking consultant who in 1989 correctly predicted that the savings-and-loan bailout would cost taxpayers about $150 billion. "It's a problem for all the industrialized countries. Computers...
...student at a large public high school. I believe that my required American history, European history and world history courses gave me this grounding. I would venture to claim that other American students at public or private high schools received the same. Harvard's population of foreign students more unfamiliar than they would like with Western Civilization have ample survey courses within the History Department to select from, as does anyone, of course...