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...list was coined by the office’s computer technicians due to the fact that these students are the final group to be admitted each year. After regular decisions and waitlist admissions have been made, Fitzsimmons says there are always more students the admissions office would like to accept. These students are offered a spot on the Z-list...
This all adds to the daunting challenges facing Britain's next government. Its first priority will surely be to get the economy out of the emergency room. The parties disagree on the speed and severity of action needed to cut the British deficit, but all accept that there must be reductions in public expenditure. Inevitably such cuts will hit the nation's most deprived communities hardest. And it is in such communities that the social consensus that underpins Britain's democracy is fracturing...
Therefore, until Housing Day, getting students to favor certain Houses over others serves no purpose as, in the end, they will be forced to accept and make do with whichever House they are assigned. Once freshmen know where they will live for the rest of their college careers, however, House unity can begin to make a difference in how they view their assignments. Often, students seem to be happiest in the Houses where they least expected to be, but no matter how many times proctors and peer advising fellows repeat this statement, their efforts are undermined by the House...
...than) President George W. Bush's emergency war supplemental bills, which totaled trillions of dollars and were mostly unpaid for. "We really believe that unemployment situation is an emergency economic situation," Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told reporters Thursday evening. "The Republicans do not accept that they want to cut off unemployment benefits or pay for it using stimulus funds which are being used to create jobs. It's a very shortsighted approach...
...March 14. Rather than tweak the right's message, Sarkozy focused on a get-out-the-vote push to urge conservatives to go to the polls, a move that helped to slightly increase voter turnout but failed to prevent the left's landslide win. Now Sarkozy may have to accept a change of tactics. Says Stéphane Rozès, president of the Paris-based Cap political consultancy: "The question [voters are] asking isn't about whether conservative policies and reform in France is what they want - they're wondering if Sarkozy is capable of applying those [policies] responsibly...