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...Saudi governments worried about that too, and last year they agreed that one of the best ways to dispel the apprehensions on both sides would be to foster more person-to-person contact. So over the next four years, Saudi Arabia will pay for al-Dehaim and as many as 20,000 other young Saudis to come to the U.S. to study. The U.S. has pledged to speed visa processing for the students--while still running full background checks and in-person interviews at the consulate in Jidda...
...would fill the tutor system to bursting. But the 2004 report missed the point. By pre-assigning freshmen to Houses, Harvard would at last begin to take advantage of its existing geographic community building possibilities, in a way that would both improve the freshmen advising and residential experience and foster House community...
...that they now harbored “serious concerns about the future of the freshman experience at Harvard” because of the planned change.“We’re worried that the social and community building aspects of freshman year, that we worked so hard to foster through the Prefect Program, will be de-emphasized,” prefect Sandy L. Ullman ’07 said.A Student Advisory Board (SAB) of 15 to 25 undergraduates will be established this spring to determine the shape of the new advising program, Rinere said.“I have...
...would turn off by themselves. And the structure itself would be built using predominantly recycled materials. In April, the Hearst Corporation's Manhattan employees will begin to move into such a place: their new headquarters will be New York City's most environmentally friendly skyscraper. The architect is Norman Foster, famed for the Millau viaduct in southern France and London's Swiss Re building. Hearst Tower, his debut large U.S. project, is the first office building in New York City to garner a gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design scheme...
MARKUS ZUSAK For theenjoyment of your more ambitious young readers, a 552-page novel about a girl named Liesel living with her foster family in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death. But wait. If you can fight your way past the rather challenging first few pages, you will find that Liesel, whose hobby is stealing books, especially stealing banned books from the Nazis, is a heroine worth fighting for, and that Death is actually a pretty cool guy to hang out with ("I like this human idea of the grim reaper," he says, "I like the scythe"). Zusak doesn...