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...List” is so named because students who are offered admission, given that they take a gap year before matriculating, receive their notices at the end of the admissions process—as late as June for some—according to Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons...
...compare the two, they are very different.” The new issue includes a range of article topics, from “A Girl’s Guide to Baseball” to a fact sheet on the vaccine for the human papilloma virus. Despite the long gap between editions, Freeze editors hope to publish two more issues next year, and Anita Gutiérrez-Folch ’08, director of publicity, said that the magazine put on a successful recruiting workshop during pre-frosh weekend. “We’re hoping to fund ourselves completely...
...social activists and the Roman hierarchy to seek solutions together. It seemed only natural this week for the Pope and Brazil's leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a longtime ally of the liberation theology movement, to agree on making a central priority of shrinking of the gap between rich and poor, and challenging the "mercantilization" of human beings in an age of globalization. Benedict, on Friday, led the canonization ceremony in Sao Paulo for the first-ever Brazilian-born saint, an 18th century Franciscan priest named Frei Antonio San'Anna Galvao, admired for his work with the disadvantaged...
...There's certainly a lot of lost ground to be made up. France has languished economically, even as Britain has caught up and overtaken it. In 2002, according to O.E.C.D. statistics, the U.K.'s national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has widened. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France - a mood that Sarkozy is pledging to change...
...economic doldrums for the past few years, even as Britain has caught up and overtaken it. In 2002, according to statistics of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Britain's national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has grown sharply. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France--a mood that Sarkozy is pledging to change...