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...Going forward, we hope that the student-faculty committee guiding the project focuses on changes to the layout of bedrooms, structural updates, and social spaces. Existing undergraduate rooms were designed to house fewer students than they do, and are in dire need of being reorganized to eliminate walk-throughs, crowded doubles, and cramped common rooms. In conjunction with the College’s decision to re-open Mass. Hall to freshmen, restructuring the Houses will hopefully help to alleviate the housing crunch that precipitated the University’s profoundly unpopular decision to abruptly end transfer admissions for the next...
...Houghton felt a sense of loyalty to the company. Since Houghton still lived in the town of Corning and was already familiar with the company’s inner workings, he thought the transition back to chief executive would not be too difficult despite the company’s dire financial straits...
...Google search of the phrase "Open Letter to George Lucas" yields 1,120 results. By this measure, Lucas is the recipient of more unsolicited advice than either Britney Spears (652) or Lindsay Lohan (738), two celebrities whose rehab stints and panty-less public appearances suggest they're in more dire need of guidance than a 64-year-old billionaire might...
Europe's increasingly dire struggle with illegal immigration reached a new extreme this month as child migrants held on a Greek island launched a hunger strike to protest the lack of proper shelter...
...Professionalizing Mexico's police and judiciary is certainly the challenge of a generation rather than of an election cycle. But Mexico's security forces, whose firepower pales in comparison to the high-powered arsenals of the drug cartels, are in dire need of just the kind of short-term aid envisioned in the plan, dubbed the "Merida Initiative" for the Yucatan city where it was announced last year by Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon...