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...Officers received a call last Sunday, March 5, from someone outside of Winthrop House who shouted to police that he or she needed to be picked up. After searching the shuttle bus stop to no avail, officers attempted to call the person back. Someone who claimed that he or she did not place the call but that they knew who did answered the phone. Police were again dispatched to the area in order to speak with either caller but could not find them...
...supporters are itching for a fight where his absurd critics would be made to look, well, absurd, he inexplicably backs down. Everywhere he goes, he utters mealy-mouthed platitudes and apologizes for holding beliefs that elsewhere would not even ripple the waters.Even this incessant groveling is to no avail. The promulgator of platitudes is brought down by a mob that is not willing to be satiated.And it’s not just a mob, but a mob with the miserable staying power that tenure offers. Whoever succeeds Larry Summers, the Faculty will still be there.Those dismayed by last week?...
...University is committed to pursuing the right mix of internal and external investing and we will continue to avail ourselves of the best talent in the investment marketplace,” he added...
...Refuge as an entitlement cut. But Congress didn't approve ANWR drilling in the current budget and no one's counting on it passing this year. And the budget also includes $5 billion in cuts of agricultural subsidies, very similar to the ones Bush pushed last year to no avail. All said, Bushies are expecting a $423 billion budget deficit for the current fiscal year, up from their recent estimates of $341 billion, the highest ever in nominal terms-although, as the White House is happy to point out, not as a percentage of the budget. By Bush...
...flavored brandy out of a Diet Pepsi bottle, Russell declined to tabulate how many languages he knows, but it seems they would number about 20.)Seminars in the humanities are pervaded by a one-upmanship in which undergrads clamor to hear themselves speak—usually to little educative avail. But while other Faculty are inexplicably reticent to guide discussions, Russell rightly figures that students can best learn by hearing him talk. And talk he does. Beyond the assigned Psalms, for instance, Russell embarked on lengthy comparisons to the Talmud and the Hadith. Students are mercifully relegated to the role...