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...Half [the freshman candidates] saw e-mails from the UC and just signed up and didn’t know what they were getting into,” Fang speculated. The chairman of the UC Election Commission, Joshua G. Allen ‘09, was even less generous in his estimations. “I think only 1/3 or so of Freshmen candidates actually campaign with real determination,” wrote Allen in an e-mail. “It may be sad, but I’m sure a few people run just to measure their popularity...
...select few, but the process is clothed in a variety of face-saving guises, all of them needlessly inefficient. Legacy preference, for example, gives the children of alumni what the admissions office website calls “a further look.” This keeps alumni happy, and ideally generous, and gives the college a way to sell places to the children of (some of) the super wealthy without saying so. But most legacies don’t need a leg up, so there’s less leverage to extract cash. A far more efficient operation would forgo...
...Spirits don't come much more generous than this. These days, Moss is not short of remunerative assignments if his prolific output of books and articles is anything to go by, and he is living in a spacious new home on Ma Wan-an outlying island of Hong Kong where slick new apartment blocks juxtapose a largely abandoned fishing village that was once the island's only settlement. From the highest colonial circles to a working-class estate to an island home that encapsulates the new Hong Kong as it hovers between the past and future: Moss's trajectory mirrors...
...gaming echoes back to the Yard, old-school partying is passé. So in the world of semantics and spirits, it’s no wonder that raging’s the rage. I first heard the word “rager” from groups of men (generous description of these boys) planning a party. The party no doubt promised loud music and several athletic chants and guaranteed a few belligerent guests and a hundred plastic cups, sticky to the touch and scattered among discarded hoodies and a pair of high black heels. Fist pumps and throaty grunts often...
...Democratic primary to fill Ford's seat, with 31% overall, in a field that included a dozen black candidates. A respected, sometimes pugnacious legislator, Cohen is probably the Tennessee General Assembly's best-known liberal. The Midtown Memphis district he has represented for a quarter century contains a generous number of blacks. Indeed, Cohen carried several predominantly black precincts and two local black mayors, Willie Herenton of Memphis and A. C. Wharton of Shelby County, enthusiastically endorsed him two weeks ago in an elaborate downtown ceremony...