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...regulars are lamenting the passing of the good old days. In front of the Barker Center Café, an unobtrusive sign advertises: “Free Coffee. New Hours at the Barker Center. Monday – Friday 9-10 AM.” These new hours are a cutback: the Center used to host twice-daily coffee frenzies from 9-10 a.m. and 3-4 p.m. Dean for the Humanities Diana Sorensen sponsors and provides the free coffee at the Barker Center. “The cost became astronomical,” Dean Sorensen explained in an e-mail...
...Hassam says he doesn't want an independent Islamic state?just more Muslims in local government and a cutback of troops and police in the area. But while the fighting continues, says Hassam, anyone suspected of feeding information to the police or military?men, women, teenagers like Ma-ae, even Muslim religious leaders?is a legitimate target. "It doesn't matter who you are," he says. "If you spy on us, we'll take you out." In one district, he adds, his brothers-in-arms have vowed to murder 10 Buddhists for every Muslim death. Such tactics unsettle some veteran...
...freshman year, they lost the opportunity to entertain women from 1 to 4 p.m., in return for a three-hour extension on Saturday evenings until 11 p.m. Despite the gain on Saturday nights, undergraduates had a net loss of 15 hours per week of parietal hours.But Radcliffe took the cutback in hours the hardest.“There is no other place to sit quietly in the afternoon,” complained one ’Cliffie to The Crimson in November 1955. “People used this opportunity to study together,” said another female.A...
...beyond the August 2005 Energy Policy Act, which is glaringly lacking in bold conservation measures. Contrary to Vice President Richard B. Cheney’s belief that conservation is merely a “personal virtue,” one of the quickest ways for the U.S. to cutback on imports of oil is to stop using so much of it. Even with less than a full term left in office, there is much Bush could accomplish in immediately and realistically cutting America’s “addiction to oil.” Possibilities include...
...also argued for a dramatic cutback in U.S. nuclear stocks...