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...before you are faced with the first of your intimidating, three-hour-long finals, you have the pseudo-break known as reading period. You’ll likely spend your reading period sleeping in, frantically writing papers, and doing any reading you put off during the semester. Language classes still meet during reading period, so you’ll find yourself regretting your decision to take that 9 a.m. Spanish class...
...Depending on the hour during which you choose to chow down, the ’Berg might be calm, quiet and nearly empty. But, more often then not, the towering edifice seems to house all of Massachusetts, as your screaming classmates frantically hoard chickwiches and attempt to make friends...
...chaos and long lines, it’s important to strategize: Find out when the big, intro lecture courses end in Sanders Theater next door (specifically: Ec 10, and Life Sci 1A), and don’t touch Annenberg with a 10-foot-pole for the following half-hour. Arriving at meals seven minutes before the dining hall closes also works well, though if you tend to run late, this can lead to missed dinners, perpetual hunger, and multiple trips to ‘Nochs for pizza...
...They were chanting against Hosni Mubarak, against Suzanne Mubarak, they were chanting against Gamal Mubarak. Outright chants," says Hossam al-Hamalawy, a left-wing journalist and labor activist, of recent strikes in the Delta. "They had 20,000 people marching for an hour in the city of Mahalla demanding that Mubarak will be overthrown, and then people say that these workers are not political?" Even so, says Beinin, most of Egypt's strike leaders don't belong to political parties, and doubts that Egypt's opposition groups will be able to channel workers' dissent into a unified push for political...
...extra screening. But that generally doesn't happen to Shah Rukh Khan, one of India's biggest film stars and a global entertainment icon. Khan, 43, was passing through Newark Liberty International Airport Aug. 15 when immigration officials removed him from line and questioned him for more than an hour. Khan (along with much of India) reacted angrily to the perceived slight, which he called "absolutely uncalled for." Many are accusing U.S. officials of profiling the South Asian heartthrob because of his race and his name, but authorities insist his examination was a routine security measure (they also...