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...conditions in which some of Libya's would-be immigrants find themselves. In Tripoli's El-Fellah neighborhood, several hundred Ghanaians and Nigerians sleep in tents in a walled-off transit camp topped with coils of barbed wire and guarded by Libyan police. Although a police guard bolted the gate when Time walked toward it, migrants outside said the camp was overflowing. People are waiting for a flight, not to Europe, but back home. "Our embassies told us that Libya doesn't want us here," said 32-year-old Ati Moses from Ghana, squatting on his locked suitcase. "They will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught Between Continents | 10/10/2004 | See Source »

This past summer, the final phase of the Widener renovation project was completed. But visible construction still remains, blocking the Mass. Ave. gate to the library...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Administrators Rededicate Widener | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...your face. It's too much." But just as many parents, if not more, go in for the pitch and happily splurge. "This is one of the largest emotional transitions people ever make," says Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology and business at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. "And shopping is a way to reduce anxiety. People feel in control when they're shopping. It's something we do really well as Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dressing Up The Dorms | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...walk through a gate, then into the building. The room seems a bit too lived-in to be a hotel room. Something might be wrong, I think—but then the pension really is very budget. When is my continental breakfast? And when should I pay, tonight or tomorrow...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bavarian Hospitality | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...through the semester. The stress, the strain, the lack of sex—it all creates a strange cycle of behavior that starts every morning and ends late into the night. The end result is exhaustion and an inability to get out of bed. Perhaps the inscription above the Gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno sums it up best: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” As a public service announcement, I write to you to illustrate a typical morning of an upperclassman. By taking note, you can prepare...

Author: By William L. Adams, | Title: The Stages of Mo(u)rning | 9/29/2004 | See Source »

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