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...think the power balance for international graduate students is a little different,” the grad student said. “I don’t think the department acted at all inappropriately, but because she was an international student, the department held an enormous amount of power over her in the sense that they forced her to leave the country immediately...
...seems that the Spragues just took a casual interest in running, but perhaps it does have something to do with family genes. Their great grandfather held a cross country record at Van Cortlandt Park in New York and qualified for the 1916 summer Olympics, which would have been held in Berlin, Germany, had it not been cancelled due to World...
...second time to vote on the Lisbon Treaty, an agreement already ratified by most of the other 26 members of the European Union that aims to reform and streamline the newly expanded organization. In June 2008, Irish voters roundly rejected the treaty in the only national referendum to be held on it, sinking the hopes of E.U. backers across the continent. In the 15 months since that vote, however, Ireland's fortunes have changed dramatically in the global recession, and the government and many prominent business leaders are now urging residents to vote yes, saying this may be the only...
...Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, a controversial figure in Russian politics whose regime human rights groups have linked to a variety of human-rights violations, has entered two horses to participate in Melbourne's Spring Carnival, a series of thoroughbred horse races that are held through October and November. His stallion Bankable is set to start in the $655,000 LKS Mackinnon Stakes race on Oct. 31, and his gelding Mourilyan will race in the Melbourne Cup itself. Both horses are about to be quarantined in England before flying to to Australia. If Australian authorities don't intervene - which some politicians...
Services will be held around campus throughout the day. The list of times and locations is after the jump...