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...saving funds was not the driver of the decision." Mitchell declined to say how much money is being saved through the restructuring.Many of the deans and staffers in ORL and OSLA were out of the office or on vacation Friday and could not be reached for comment about the restructuring. Hammonds said that "the responsibilities, programming, and services" provided by the previously separate offices should not change in any way because of the merger."I have worked with student organizations and activities on other campuses, and believe that students' out-of-class experiences engender creativity, fellowship, and 'learning by doing...
...While talks with the family are still very preliminary, their initial response to involvement with the show has been "excellent," says Phillips. "They like the idea of taking their brother's last work and showing it to the world," he says. (The Jackson family spokesperson declined to comment on this story.) Phillips says that the Rev. Al Sharpton even mentioned Aug. 29 to him as a good date over drinks at the Four Seasons. (See pictures of places to honor Jackson's memory...
...Russian government has said little about the Kursk nuclear submarine since it sank in the Barents Sea on Aug. 12, 2000, leaving 118 sailors and officers dead. Then President Vladimir Putin waited five days while vacationing on the Black Sea to comment; when friends and relatives of the dead unfurled a memorial in Moscow on the second anniversary of the disaster, not a single senior government official attended. This is not surprising. The Kursk went down when one of its torpedoes blew up. Remembering this sort of self-inflicted tragedy would conflict with Soviet - and post-Soviet - myth-making about...
...That last comment might help explain why Obama has opted to deliver his key Africa speech to Ghana's Parliament rather than to a public crowd, which would probably have drawn huge numbers. The news site Politico last weekend speculated that Obama - or his security detail - may also want to avoid the kind of bedlam that greeted Bill Clinton's visit to Accra in 1998, when he was nearly crushed by a crowd that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. On that day, as people surged toward the stage, the visibly terrified Clinton shouted, "Get back! Get back!" (Read "Into...
...many people were beaten by Uighurs, I don't know. I can't comment about something I don't know...