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While generating enthusiasm among many college students, the announcement also sparked complaints from several groups, prompting Zuckerberg to cancel the tournament...
...live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling Moy (Wong) and elicits her vow that she will "cancel the debt" to the Fu family honor and murder the son, Ronald (Bramwell Fletcher)... who, dash it all, is madly infatuated with Ling...
...joint jurisdiction of departments, area study centers and OCS. A student wishing to work in Germany, for instance, will be juggled between OCS, OIP, the Center for European Studies and the German Department. Furthermore, funding is only granted extremely late, frequently in April, so those denied grants must cancel their internship and scramble to find an affordable alternative. Since Harvard truly cares about “global competence,” it will hopefully soon desist from putting students through such a process. While learning to navigate this decentralized institution is valuable, Kafkian torture is uncalled...
...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 and forced to become soldiers...
Geldof and other Africa activists, like U2 front man Bono, are wonderful advocates for the push to cancel the continent's debt and open up Western markets to Africa's farmers. But I suggest they change their tune and come up with a hit demanding that the West drop its agricultural subsidies, cancel more debt and urge Africa's worst leaders to go. How about something like...