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Even in financially challenging times, University administrators emphasize the importance of sending the president on trips to distant lands, though it may be necessary to modify specific travel plans. Faust’s trip to Africa was postponed and scaled back from the original itinerary scheduled for spring break this year, which fell in the midst of the drawn-out budgeting process...
...support her intellectual and cultural immersion efforts, her brother sent her several CDs featuring South African music for her birthday back in September. The strains of gospel and reggae now serenade her at the gym and in the car, she says...
...BACK TO GIRLS’ SCHOOL
...Pertile] will extend warmth of welcome not only to the new fellows each year, but to the many scholars who come back from past years, and others who come to work in the library,” Connors wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson from Italy. “He will be a natural bridge between American and Italian scholarship, as hehas been for his whole career...
...than in any year since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. In the 1980s and '90s, states consistently sent more than 300 prisoners per year to death row. The total this year, according to DPIC, will be 106. This continues a steady trend going back most of the decade, and it extends even to Texas, the leading death-penalty state, where juries reliably sent 30 or more convicted killers per year to death row. That number fell to single digits this year: nine. (See why Texas may be changing its mind about the death penalty...