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...will over the course of each semester. New York University offers a selection of meals per week or meals per semester for the buffet-style dining halls with a semesterly allowance (much like our Board Plus) for café-style establishments Under these plans, students have to keep a constant tally of their consumption, perhaps one concern too many for a student body already stressed...
...neighborhood. She was bored by the dinner parties he took her to, where men boasted about golf scores and wives complained about their Indonesian servants. The couple fought rarely but had less and less in common. "She wasn't prepared for the loneliness," Obama wrote in Dreams. "It was constant, like a shortness of breath." (See pictures of how Obama prepares a speech...
...overthrown. President Rene Preval, respected for his probity but criticized for his lack of leadership and statesmanship, has been trying to improve Haiti's squalid conditions since taking office in 2006, but demonstrators squeezed by spiraling food costs say they're tired of waiting for a solution to their constant hunger. "We used to be hungry enough to drink Clorox," a local mechanic told TIME by phone from Port-au-Prince. "Now it's battery acid - it gets the job done quicker." Last week, Preval had said he understood the frustrations, and quipped that if people started to protest, they...
...event. The Harvard Crimson: President Bush’s approval ratings are now in the low 30s. Why do you think his approval ratings are so low? Karl Rove: We’re in an unpopular war, and he’s been on the receiving end of constant attacks over the past three years from Democrats, including a whole field of Democratic presidential contenders. History is going to judge him, and the American people will come to judge him very favorably for having done the right things at a difficult time for our country. THC: Would you advise Bush...
Nevertheless, it's a fragile, polarized democracy--one that Sánchez feels requires constant vigilance. He works 16-hour days to monitor democracy in Venezuela and stability outside it, and recently led about 400 classmates across the Colombian border, calling for peace during a diplomatic meltdown between the feuding neighbors. Sánchez says that while his movement has "taken away [his] youth," it can be an example to the rest of Latin America. "Youths in any nation, I believe, can do the same," he says. "They can make history...