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When asked directly about his resignation near the end of the session, Summers said that the Faculty “had refused to meet him halfway,” and that the divisions were simply too deep to be bridged...
...above all things, the story of Jay Gatsby is a tragedy. And to celebrate it is to perhaps only have read the novel halfway through. Gatsby, after all, is murdered at the end, his dreams intact. His life is neither viable nor enviable, Fitzgerald seems to be telling...
TiVo? That's so last year. There's a new cool device for the TV: the Slingbox, which lets you watch your home television when you're halfway around the world. Don't worry if that business trip to Australia has inconveniently come just when Man U is playing Arsenal in London. With a Slingbox in the living room and an Internet-connected laptop or 3G mobile phone on the road, you can follow every live strike by Thierry Henry and Wayne Rooney just as if you were slumped into your favorite comfy chair in Highbury. Not that...
Women's advocates are trying to set up halfway houses for kidnap survivors. The locations are secret to keep the women safe from both trafficking gangs trying to cover their tracks and outraged relatives who may try to kill the women to restore their clans' reputation. But the new Iraqi government has set up several bureaucratic roadblocks. Even organizations that do not receive government money have to secure permission from four ministries and the Baghdad city council for every shelter they hope to operate. Wringing her hands in exasperation, activist Yanar Mohammed says, "They want to close our women...
...exploit the fact.”The Crimson used its own strong base to keep the margin to two seats after both crews settled into the first 500. Then both crews passed the 400-meter mark, and Navy began steadily accumulating seats to its narrow lead. By the halfway point, Navy stood close to a length up.“When we went to make a move, they made a move that was stronger,” Kauble added.Navy continued to add to its lead in a seat-by-seat fashion over the third 500 meters, building as much...