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Though Cornell’s program is in dire need of assistance in many areas, the signing of recruits is the most immediate concern. On Wednesday, the first day on which incoming freshmen may sign letters of intent, the Big Red lagged far behind not only Ivy powerhouses Harvard, Yale and Penn but also middlings Princeton and Dartmouth in the number of prospects locked...
Kudzai A. Makomva ’06, who hails from Zimbabwe, said the situation is so dire that Harvard should get involved...
Despite the cutbacks, MIT administrators said the university is by no means in dire financial straits...
...other aid agencies, citing security concerns, have suspended operations in the impoverished south and east. "If we fail" to restore civil order in the country, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson told reporters at the NATO parliamentary assembly this month, "we will find Afghanistan on all of our doorsteps." Unfortunately, dire warnings alone will not win the Afghan peace. --By Tim McGirk
Silly me, despite the dire warnings from pro-choice spokespersons about how the “partial-birth” abortion ban tears at the fabric of Roe v. Wade, I wasn’t too worried about the new legislation. I knew that “partial-birth” abortions were pretty rare, and so it all seemed like a hollow victory for the pro-life lobby. That was until I read the fine print. There is one exception built into the ban—doctors are allowed to perform the operation if the pregnancy puts the woman?...