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...afoot. Food items have started to vanish. Thigh meat has replaced breast meat in chicken dishes. Wedge tomatoes have been added to substitute the cherry tomatoes. White batter products have replaced whole-grain waffle batter and pasta. In response to higher food prices, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has begun to phase out several menu items in favor of cheaper, less healthful alternatives. Given the way that HUDS’ budget is determined, its constraints are understandable. The board rate is negotiated in the winter prior to the school year, forcing HUDS to get creative in light of rising food...
...Grosslight admitted of the beginning of the try-out process. “We talked about my horrible dating life.” Grosslight said he’s considering simply giving up and writing a book about his experience—and has in fact already begun preparations.“I bring a waiver so that the dates can sign it,” Grosslight said, adding that he wants to be able to use their names in the book if it doesn’t work out.After two interviews, Grosslight was asked to make a ten-minute...
...Obama since has waged a long, quiet campaign for the support of national unions, emphasizing his community organizer past and the strong, virtually unified support he has received from their Illinois chapters. And in the last seven weeks the campaign has begun to reap the fruits, picking up new endorsements and getting close to neutralizing any advantage with organized labor that Clinton appeared to enjoy. Seven national unions, including the United Food and Commercial Workers, Unite HERE and the five-million member Change To Win coalition of unions - which includes the powerful Service Employees International and Teamsters unions - have...
...glib Reyes, 59, who was one of the less mysterious FARC comandantes because of his role as media flack. His real name was Luis Edgar Devia Silva - and his satellite phone apparently gave away his location in remote southwestern Colombia, near or across the Ecuadoran border. Bogota has also begun extraditing FARC leaders to the U.S., and two of them were recently convicted and handed lengthy federal prison sentences. It's not even certain if the FARC's 77-year-old leader, Manuel Marulanda (known as Tirofijo, or Sureshot) is still alive; and morale among the rebels' rank and file...
...settle as squatters. "The best thing for them is to [get] back to their homes as soon as possible," Odhaib says of the displaced. But at present there are no plans to resettle any of the displaced people Odhaib aids, and many of the sites where they live have begun to look more like emerging slums than temporary tent cities...