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...deep bind because it relies on periodic checks from the administration to keep itself afloat.The administration has also introduced a new set of restrictions on funding for grants to House Committees (HoCos) and student groups—restrictions that will paralyze the UC’s ability to foster campus life. As part of its new measures, Harvard will not provide any money to fund events at which alcohol is present unless there is a Beverage Authorization Team present to enforce the legal drinking age, nor will it disburse funds collected from the $75 student activities fee prior...
...providing more space for grad students close to their advisers, and more space for undergraduate classes, the renovation would do a lot to help foster that sense of community...
...monastery took up the pill production. According to England's Daily Telegraph, as his cause for sainthood began picking up steam, they were up to 10,000 pills a day. The Telegraph reported that the local hierarchy opposed the practice, and a senior archbishop commented that it "foster[s] suspicion." However, the Vatican was apparently satisfied...
...little empathy for the poor in a largely poor state. A Rhodes scholar whose parents arrived in the U.S. from India just months before he was born, Jindal was selected to run the state's Department of Health and Hospitals by Blanco's predecessor, two-term Republican Mike Foster, at the ripe old age of 24. The Baton Rouge native guided the bloated department through a rough period of cutbacks, both in jobs and reimbursements to health care providers; that work led to a stint as director of a federal Medicare commission at 27 and head of the Louisiana State...
...Last April, after state Republican party leadership endorsed Jindal and when it became clear that Breaux was out of the race, Boasso switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, and he has spent the ensuing weeks burnishing his regular-guy image. Public service commissioner and former state senator Foster Campbell is the more traditional Louisiana Democrat, proud to wear the populist label. But he's little known outside his North Louisiana stronghold, where Jindal's appeals to Christian conservatives have cut into Campbell's natural base. Rounding out the field of major candidates is New Orleans businessman John Georges...