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...dismantled in "a year or two." He explains: "A minority of 23.8% [Serbs] can block the whole country. We should be a citizen-based, and not an ethnically-based, country." He favors what he calls a new "dialogue" with all sides about how to eliminate the old borders and establish a centralized government in Sarajevo, but critics fear he means a Muslim-dominated state in which ethnic Serbs and Croats would lose their collective rights. Serb leaders insist that the entities, and hence their Serb-dominated statelet, are sacrosanct. "We will fight" attempts to dismantle the current system, Dodik told...
...says, "this was just the first of many corpses marked in this way." Life behind bars, as described by the doctor in his bestselling memoir turned movie, Estação Carandiru, is defined by such brutal acts. With too few guards to keep order, prisoners establish their own forms of governance. The pcc, a prison football team that evolved into a criminal gang, has proved more ambitious than its rivals, not only seeking to control the cellblocks but also claiming to campaign for better conditions in them. The prisons are a world far removed from the affluent residential districts...
...This is the first attempt [to establish a women’s center] where the administration and students have worked together over a considerable period of time to formulate a real vision and to commit some real resources,” Gross said at the open house yesterday...
...took just a week for Princeton to take Harvard’s cue in abolishing early admissions—but 37 years after Harvard established a black studies concentration, Princeton is only now following in its Cambridge rival’s footsteps.The New Jersey school is establishing a new Center for African American Studies and expanding its faculty in the field from 5 to 11—challenging Harvard’s position as the premier hub of black studies. On Monday, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman announced plans for the university to expand its African American studies program...
...place is that they offer both donors and student groups a substantial advantage over direct contributions. Gift accounts enable donors to deduct their donations from their taxes because the recipient of the donations is technically the University, not the groups themselves. Without these accounts, student groups would have to establish themselves as 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, which is a difficult, time-consuming process that requires expensive annual audits. Moreover, gift accounts are useful because they confer an extra degree of legitimacy on student groups’ finances. Because withdrawals have to go through the university, donors have...