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Council members insist that the hike, which raised the fee from $35 to $60 and increased the council’s budget by about $100,000, was necessary to continue funding student groups and HoCos, while making good on promises to bring big-name bands to campus...
...looks out on Tripoli, it is hard to grasp the potential. The city's crumbling old Italian colonial buildings are set amid billboards hailing Libya's socialist revolution and trumpeting the power of the "people's committees," Gaddafi's version of local democracy. But Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia--Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms--Western executives crowd the lobby, rubbing shoulders with politicians and diplomats. The U.S. liaison office, the prelude to a real embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely...
...trivial health risks to over-drinking. Cases of sexual assaults are almost always connected to alcohol consumption. Hangovers aren’t fun. Almost every student has heard these arguments before, and sadly they’ve had little effect on the 0.1 percent of stubborn students who insist on drinking in excess of excess. Well, now there’s a new, even more compelling reason not to over-drink: You could ruin the Harvard-Yale tailgate (at Harvard) forever...
Despite their clownish nature, the three all insist that their unique sense of togetherness bolsters their play on the court...
...Three - Germany, France and Britain - were engaged last week in an effort to prove that E.U. diplomacy backed by U.S. power can resolve the dangerous standoff over Iran's ongoing efforts to enrich uranium, a process which the U.S. and Israel insist is a bid for nuclear arms. Last week some E.U., Iranian and U.N. officials were hailing as a potential breakthrough an agreement in which Iran would suspend its enrichment activities in exchange for additional nuclear technology and guaranteed fuel deliveries for a civilian nuclear capability. But at week's end, the optimism was fading. German Foreign Minister Joschka...