Word: exactions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...going to lose her moral support after this round of finals. Eventful day, eh? You can protest the budget cuts in the VOID, too (outside of adding to that 55 email chain with the exact same point everyone else already made). Make a 5am trek from Lamont to the Quad. Or better yet, wait for the sunrise and show solidarity with your athlete friends by enjoying a bacony breakfast with them...
...some allege were a disproportionate number of schools collapsing. Despite what human-rights activists say has been a campaign of intimidation by the government, including beating and jailing parents to try and keep them silent, one group has continued to press Beijing for details on school construction and the exact number of students killed in the disaster as well as their identities and other details. It's the kind of battle routinely fought all over rural China, pitting powerful local officials and businessmen against ordinary citizens who feel they have been wronged. It's also a struggle that is almost...
...firsthand the suffering of its victims and particularly of those who had lost children. He began to write extensively about the issue on his blog - already one of the country's most popular - and soon found readers volunteering to help him in an attempt to record the exact number of students who had been killed. It's a project Ai says he will continue until "we find the last name, or I am dead." The way things are going, it's most likely to be the latter. Even if Ai does finally feel satisfied that every single name has been...
...Foundation president Langdale said names of contributors will not be released because some donors prefer anonymity. He also would not disclose the exact total raised thus far. But other sources reported commitments totaling more than a third of the $300 million projected for the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which will include a museum and research institute to be built on a 25-acre parcel...
...part of the Visiting Director’s Project, which provides Harvard undergraduates an opportunity to work with a professional director on a full-scale theatrical production. Considering whether she prefers directing and producing to acting, she says, “I think it depends a lot on the exact project and the situation. I really enjoy producing and directing when it is a project that I really feel strongly about. The different jobs can be rewarding in their own ways. I like doing each one much more having seen what the other side looks like.” Reflecting...