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...Undergraduate Council is closing the 2007-2008 school year with an unprecedented $10,000 surplus, UC Treasurer Anthony R. Britt ’10 announced on Sunday. The UC will use the surplus, left over after the final batch of grants, to fund any remaining grants for the year. The remaining money will be rolled over to next year’s budget. Two years ago, grants that came at the end of the year were cut by 45 percent; groups that would have received full funding earlier in the year only received about half of what they requested. Last...
...shares a compound with the Mysore Mandala Yogashala. Just before sundown, a batch of eight students - all foreigners - are beginning their evening session with a Sanskrit mantra invoking Patanjali, the sage who compiled the Yoga Sutras, expounding ashtanga, or eight-limbed, yoga philosophy. The room is dimly lit and already slightly clammy when the students begin huffing and puffing their way through ten repetitions of surya namaskara, or sun salutation, the opening asana. Within a few minutes, their bodies are glistening with sweat as they flex themselves into scary positions, sometimes tugged and pushed by the teacher, all apparently impervious...
...that it would eliminate the Early Action admissions program. Critics of the change opposed it because they believed eliminating Early Action would repel the most competitive applicants, who crave admissions decisions earlier in the school year, to our peer institutions. But given the overwhelmingly positive results of this admissions batch, those fears should be assuaged. Most importantly, according to the Admissions Office, this class of acceptances is likely to be more socioeconomically and geographically diverse than previous classes—which was the intended effect of eliminating Early Action. For instance, a record 11 percent of students are of African...
...military's "surge" in Iraq long before it looked like a sure thing. If the Arizona Senator risked his presidential ambitions on it, the stakes for Hammadi were higher: his life and the lives of his wife and two young children. Last summer, as the final batch of 30,000 additional American troops requisitioned by General David Petraeus was arriving in Iraq, the bus driver and his family left their refuge in Syria to return home. It had been nearly two years since they fled their neighborhood, al-Dora, after al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists killed the wife...
...Lee’s friends was eating French fries. The Senator came over and took some fries from him, promising he would pay the friend back. At the end of the game, Lee says, Obama made good on his promise and bought Lee’s friend another batch of fries...