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...Charles River Cleanup” in the morning and the afternoon EAC Earth Day Celebration on the MAC Quad, according to REP representative Nicole E. Hughes ’09. The week’s events might not have an immediate impact, Arnold said, but they aim to raise student awareness about environmental issues. “We work on the student-to-student level to change habits,” he said...
...with up to four sessions in a day. Like many teachers and students, he is critical of Jois's brand of yoga, which many teachers in Mysore have adopted - largely to attract foreign students and their dollars. "Yoga's about liberation, emancipation, inner peace, harmony... That's the ultimate aim of yoga - kaivalya. It's not just about a perfectly sculpted body," he says. He also says Jois's fees - $700 for a month-long course, three to four times the amounts charged by other schools - are excessive, "especially as he doesn't even teach himself any more. His daughter...
...military commanders in Iraq and the Iraqi government have been trumpeting the growing confidence and successes of the Iraqi army and police force, since Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched an offensive against Basra last month, with the aim of reclaiming control of the southern port city from the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Despite meeting powerful resistance from the Mahdi Army, and suffering the desertion of roughly 1,300 soldiers who refused to fight, the Iraqis' performance was commended by the U.S. as a show of their newfound competence. "Iraqi forces are taking the lead...
...MCAS in recent years, some residents say that doing well on standardized tests is not the best indicator of academic prowess. “We should celebrate, but I think using the state standard and looking at passing, as opposed to advanced level, makes us guilty of low aim,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons, at a committee meeting when the graduation rate data for last year was publicized. Eighty-eight percent of students district-wide graduated, which was seven points higher than the 81 percent for the state. The data also showed that while white males graduated...
...relative. We think of tempura as Japanese but it’s actually from Portugal in the 1500s. And we think of potatoes as something very Irish, but potatoes are from Peru. THC: What kinds of discussions were you hoping to provoke with this book?JL: The large aim of the book is to make people think twice about what it means to be American. And that in a post-1965, post-Open Door Act world, when we’re in the midst of the largest non-European wave of immigration ever, our center of gravity of what...