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...didn't expect the job market would be quite so inhospitable. "I've had eight interviews so far," says Huang, an international-trade graduate of Anhui University of Finance & Economics, "but I still don't have a decent offer. And I just had an export-import company in Shanghai cancel an interview. They told me, 'We're not hiring anymore, our business is down and we think it's going to get worse...
...Everyone mentioned the war. Georgian singer Buba Kikabidze said he was returning awards given to him by the Russian government and would cancel an upcoming concert at the Kremlin. Fellow singer Tamriko Chokhonelidze said she was sorry that the invader was an orthodox Christian nation, just as Georgia is, but "our spirit will make us have more children and our children will be speaking and singing Georgian." Georgian mothers, she said, will always sing lullabies to their children. Every so often, a speaker would shout "Long live!" and the crowd responded instantly with "Georgia...
...with [guitarist-vocalist] Gary Davis and his wife, and they took me down to the Gaslight Café and tried to convince the owner, Clarence Hood, to let me open for Gary. When he refused, Mrs. Davis told him that Gary wasn't feeling well and they had to cancel. So he let me open. And some guy literally ran backstage yelling, Kid, I'm going to make you a star...
...protests could break out as early as this weekend, when the Olympic torch relay passes through the Tibetan capital Lhasa, a route some protesters have claimed was a deliberate provocation. In an apparent concession, Beijing shortened the time that the torch would be present in Tibet but refused to cancel the leg entirely...
...Faculty put a proposal to lower quorum from one-sixth to one-eighth on the agenda for the next meeting. Perhaps out of shock at having accomplished something during the February meeting, or maybe out of fear that the meeting would not reach quorum itself, the Faculty decided to cancel their March meeting, putting off their discussion of the quorum question until April’s meeting, at which they failed to meet quorum, and thus passed no legislation...