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Iowans are reveling in the influx of thousands of media, staffers, volunteers and others, who are planning to usher in 2008 in Iowa. "We expect a lot more activity this year," said Des Moines Mayor T. M. Franklin Cownie, a Democrat who has endorsed Obama. "All the restaurants in the downtown area are hopping. It's going to be exciting...
...Musharraf's iron grip on power that has made Washington's own policy toward Pakistan such a target of criticism. While Washington has publicly extolled the virtues of democracy and hoped that Bhutto's return to Pakistan in October would usher in a power-sharing deal with Musharraf, it was also clearly nervous about the instability if the country's strong man were to lose power entirely. Pakistan - the world's second-most-populous Muslim nation, with elements of al-Qaeda and the Taliban controlling lawless mountainous pockets in the northwest - is also the only Islamic state with a nuclear...
...uniquely human expression, despite what any killer sex-bot might try and tell you.With the exception of a tribute to the high school prom scene from the 1999 teen-classic film “She’s All That” (the one where Usher serves as DJ) in “Eyes Wide Shut” and a tour-de-force solo effort by Mollie K. Wright ’09, who is also a Crimson arts editor, in “The Real High School Musical,” the rest of the second half...
...formerly CUE) guide. The system for evaluating has long been flawed, and student participation has suffered as a result. Today, a motion will go before the Faculty to enact substantive and extensive reform of the course evaluation process. We strongly encourage the Faculty to attend the meeting and usher Harvard’s course evaluation system into a new and more effective era.The chief fault of the current course evaluation system is that professors are not required to open their courses up to evaluation by students. The opportunity for students to evaluate their professors and Teaching Fellows...
...result is that for all his ambition to usher in a new era of growth, Brabeck is not about to follow the radical--and financially successful--example of one of Nestle's main rivals, the Anglo-Dutch Unilever group. Unilever has taken a machete to its operations over the past three years, cutting the number of its brands by half to focus on 400 key products and shutting 83 of its 250 manufacturing facilities. Those efforts have widened its operating margins by 45%, and its earnings per share were up 27% last year, despite the sluggish economy. During Brabeck...