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...already strong presence at on-campus job fairs. According to Terry, registration with the GetConnects’ online database is free for students, but businesses are asked to pay for access. Terry said his company will help to fill in holes in minority professional networks. “The vast majority of people in the U.S. get their jobs through a preexisting network,” Terry said. “One of the problems is that the U.S. is a deeply segregated society and that minority groups have some of the most shallow social networks of people...
...partial birth abortion" has been fraught with dishonesty on both sides. Pro-choice advocates tried to make the case that it was rarely used, and only in the most extreme circumstances, such as in cases where a fetus was deformed. The first part was true, but only because the vast majority of abortions occur in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, when this procedure would not even be a consideration. The latter was false, as reporters who went past the spin soon learned. Ruth Padawer of the Bergen Record found that in one New Jersey clinic alone, something like...
Just looking at the numbers, these should be halcyon days for Vietnam's fledgling banking industry. The country's economy is booming-GDP surged 8.2% last year-and there's a vast pool of potential customers: only 8% of Vietnam's 85 million people even have bank accounts. At Sacombank, one of Vietnam's private commercial lenders, profits shot up 50% last year, and depositors doubled to 350,000. But Nguyen Quang Trung, Sacombank's deputy director, is anything but complacent. "We have to expand quickly throughout the country," Trung says. "We need to build capital. Our whole banking sector...
...Hezbollah hospital and clinic staff also treat walk-in patients, regardless of political views or their sect, for only a small fee.” Yet Norton also deals with the violent aspects of Hezbollah, including its conflict with Israel in the summer of 2006, which garnered a vast amount of attention from the international community. Norton wisely avoids condoning its actions while providing a compelling explanation for the authority Hezbollah has in some sectors of Lebanese society, including holding seats in the Lebanese parliament despite its previous opposition to the established government. He notes that Hezbollah gained power...
...faculty, responsible administrators, and student advisers to work out core principles and allocate supportive resources—and then leave the details to the creativity of instructors and departments. The existing Core Curriculum has been much resented by students and faculty, because new courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely reviewed. To carry out the new general education system as well as other promised reforms, we should allow maximum space for pedagogical creativity. Rather than tell all course heads they need to follow set formats—for exams, assignments, course...