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College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds e-mailed students earlier today to announce the unveiling of the much delayed application for J-Term housing. You can find it here. The app is pretty short, so you might as well fill it out soon and not play chicken with the Oct. 15 deadline. A couple of things to note after the jump...
...castigating institutions and individuals that he felt were failing to properly represent Catholic values. He could be abrasive, blasting Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa., for inviting an openly gay writer and former Clinton Administration aide to speak. The university, declared Martino, was "seriously failing in maintaining its Catholic identity." Earlier this year, Martino threatened to shutter Scranton's cathedral on St. Patrick's Day if any local Irish-American organizations included pro-choice politicians in their celebrations...
...threat to the nation's tradition of secularity. After all, France is the nation that felt obliged to protect itself against the supposed spread of Islam by passing a 2004 law prohibiting students from wearing religious symbols in public schools - a measure primarily aimed at Islamic headscarves. Earlier this year, legislators demanded a legal ban on burqas, a form of apparel that President Nicolas Sarkozy damned as "not welcome on French territory." That legal prohibition was regarded as overkill, however, when a police intelligence study estimated that fewer than 370 women in the nation of 65 million people actually wear...
...guerrillas. As the rebels retreated, the annual number of displaced persons fell. But now the yearly figures mirror those registered during the most horrific years of the war. Many of the victims have been targeted by a new generation of private armies whose ranks include paramilitaries who disarmed earlier this decade. Unlike the ideologically driven death squads of the 1990s, these new militias are focused on drug-trafficking. Colombian police put the number of new armed groups at eight. But the New Rainbow Foundation, a Colombian NGO that investigates the war, puts the number at 82 and says they have...
...iPhone to be released in China this year will come without wi-fi communications capability, a concession made earlier to comply with Chinese regulations that restrict the technology to promote the domestic WAPI standard. Those rules have since been eased, and Apple and Unicom are now hurrying to bring wi-fi phones to the Chinese market, Clark says. In the meantime, they may have trouble selling their hobbled models. "In my view, it will be a challenge to sell these dumbed-down models. Chinese consumers are savvy," Clark says. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...