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...keep HELEN MIRREN off the world stage. The Oscar-nominated actress, brave enough to go stark naked in Calendar Girls, was all set to visit Sudan's Darfur region this week to use her celebrity status to call attention to the genocide there. A surge in violence prompted Oxfam, the sponsor, to cancel the trip, but Mirren refused to make her exit. After a minor script adjustment, she is now headed to northern Uganda, another African hot spot, where 18 years of war have driven more than 1.6 million people from their homes, including some 20,000 children abducted...
...humbug, says Cori Pursell, 45, a mother of two from Overland Park, Kans. For the past six years, she and her husband have made a concerted effort to rein in the holiday hoopla. "Rather than focus on the shopping calendar of Christmas, we're focusing on the spiritual aspect," Pursell explains. "We've decided to not even put up a tree until the third week of Advent, and we don't decorate it until the week before Christmas." Other holiday trappings have gone out the window altogether. Several years ago, the couple stopped swathing the house in knickknacks and frills...
...while it’s encouraging that the future council president has taken notice of this grassroots movement, HUDS had legitimate reasons to remove the exorbitant feast from its calendar. Costing the University roughly $30,000 to orchestrate the event, HUDS argues that the trade-off in terms of daily services and provisions isn’t worth the price of a night of extravagant lobster indulgence. Assistant Director of Marketing Crista Martin noted, “Do lobsters one day translate to grilled chicken on a daily basis? Yes.” We see HUDS’ point...
...faculty has, to date, not had a serious discussion of calendar reform,” Mendelsohn says. “I could be convinced for either, but I would like to see more evidence...
According to Dudley J. Doane, director of the Summer School and January Term, due to an immovable calendar system, the newly planned J-term will last from Jan. 3 to the 13, translating to approximately 40 total hours of class time...