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Student complaints about the recent disappearance of the College’s airport shuttle service have sparked a broader debate over the structure and responsibilities of the Undergraduate Council. While shuttle services will not be provided in time for winter break, the debate has evolved into a principled one that looks beyond this year’s holiday rush. Recognizing that the shuttles the Undergraduate Council (UC) has provided in the past have been ineffective—shuttles were late, filled up too quickly, or did not have adequate space for luggage—council members are debating whether these...
...government resigned soon, Hizballah would demand even greater concessions than just a blocking veto in the cabinet. Nasrallah also threatened an escalation of tactics to include unspecified acts of civil disobedience, which could range from strikes by government employees who support the opposition, shutdowns at the ports and airport, and a walkout by opposition members of parliament...
...American has banned her for a long time." LYNNE LOWRANCE, Nashville International Airport Authority spokeswoman, on a woman blacklisted by American Airlines after she lit a match aboard a plane to hide her flatulence, setting off alarms and causing the plane to make an emergency landing...
Jose Padilla was the first and only American citizen to be held without charge after being labeled an "enemy combatant" by President Bush. A 36-year-old former Chicago gang member, he was arrested in June 2002, following his arrival at Chicago's O'Hare airport. The U.S. claimed he had been sent by al-Qaeda to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb" in an American city...
While most tourists slip through Johannesburg seeing little more than the airport, those who want to understand the darker days in South Africa's not-so-distant past should visit Constitution Hill. Until 1983 this was home to the Old Fort Prison, where thousands of political prisoners once awaited trial. Today it has been partially preserved as a museum, but the old Awaiting Trial Block has been demolished, and in its place is the new Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land. It's the end result of a competition to "create a building rooted in the South African...