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...guarding the henhouse does little good if the fox is already nestled inside. To unmask the deceivers among them, some employers are conducting checks upon promotion. Verified Person markets its ability to provide ongoing employee screening through automated criminal checks. With this increased vigilance comes a thorny new dilemma: figuring out whether every fib is really a fireable offense. Many bosses feel that a worker's track record on the job speaks more strongly than a stretched rsum, says John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Rather than booting talented workers, Challenger suggests, employers should offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Wise to Lies | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...Upon arrival at Harvard, I was told that I would leave this place wishing that I could have taken more classes. Creating a database of class videos, the “new Widener,” would benefit both undergrads on campus and alumni all over the world. It could even open lucrative new revenue streams—possibly even subsidizing the program itself—if we sell access to the database a la iTunes. Regardless of the means chosen, the ends would be to create a parallel endowment not measured in dollars in foreign investment funds...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Building a New Widener | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

Finding the right doctor is important: but so is choosing the right hospital. There are all kinds of guides that can tell you what percentage of heart-attack patients were prescribed beta blockers upon arrival or sell you a report about your particular doctor. The problem is that it takes a doctorate in statistics to sort out the data. "The world's best orthopedic surgeon will be sent everyone's disaster cases," says Wachter. "He may be spectacular and still have worse outcomes than the crummy surgeon across the street who has better outcomes because he gets the slam dunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...race, but the Crimson fought for five more seats in the next 15 strokes to sit on Navy’s three-seat as the boats settled into base cadence. A move at 500 meters down gave the Crimson second varsity an open water lead, one it would build upon in the final 1500 meters.“I really had to turn it over to the guys to open up the margin, to never sit,” second varsity coxswain Amanda Caplan said. “They’re really good at doing that, and these guys...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Powers Forward Again | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...also continue throughout the night as a recurring strength of the performance.Yannatos left the stage after the Wagnerian conclusion and returned with violin phenomenon Jackiw. Standing hesitantly next to the ebullient Yannatos, Jackiw appeared almost out of place as the orchestra began to set up the musical canvas, but upon diving into the piece with a dramatic downbow, Jackiw seized the stage for himself.Jackiw has the tremendous ability to skip about the violin and draw every note out of it without compromising its tone, and his performance of Brahms’s iconic violin piece was no exception. With...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jackiw Powers Through Brahms | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

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