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College students are known for their ability to survive on instant noodles, toast and a shoestring budget. But recently, some students in Ireland have gotten particularly desperate. "I have heard from students who have lived on biscuits stolen from the chaplaincy in their college for a week, students who have lived in their cars for months," says Hugh Sullivan, education officer at the Union of Students in Ireland, a group that advocates on behalf of more than 250,000 students across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Education Crisis: College Costs Soar | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...slightly more PG story. “When I saw the e-mail I sort of gasped,” she said. “I then called my parents, who then proceeded to tell the waiter at whatever place they were eating at that I had gotten...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Decision Day 2010: Remember When You Got into Harvard? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...anonymous Harvardian, getting into Harvard was something of a curse. “As a Boston-area native from a Harvard-favored public school, not only was I not ecstatic about my admission, I was actually depressed that I hadn't gotten into other schools that would finally allow me to leave Boston.” But all was not lost: “The cast member next to me said he received an acceptance e-mail, but then claimed five days later that the email had been sent by accident and gave me all the Harvard paraphernalia that...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Decision Day 2010: Remember When You Got into Harvard? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...gotten better over the years at accepting the inherent confusions that my name brings. I just smile in silence when the Greenhouse Café card swiper chirps, “Have a nice day, Henrietta!” Or when someone I meet up with for the first time in Lamont exclaims with shock, “I wasn’t expecting you to be a girl!” I can laugh it off and say, truthfully, that it happens all the time...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What’s in a Name? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...leadership. At that point, Benedict might just make his mark on Church history as the eternal guide for personal accountability. And when other cases come up - and they will - we in the media can start to talk about what has improved in combating sex abuse, what Benedict has gotten right and indeed the fact that these problems exist elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Benedict Should Handle the Abuse Scandal | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

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