Word: letting
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...Wednesday, the United Nations announced that over 11 million children have been orphaned by AIDS, with 95 percent of those orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. The effect of AIDS in these countries, which still lack adequate containment mechanisms, let alone treatment, is a daily terror. The region, which makes up less than five percent of the world's population, has been the home of more than half of the world's documented AIDS cases...
...time for Texas A&M to reevaluate the bonfire. Though the Aggies argue that tampering with the age-old ritual will irreparably dampen school spirit, Texas A&M has weathered the banishment of past traditions without losing its school pride. In the '60s, university president Earl Rudder let in women and integrated minorities on campus for the first time. He also eliminated the requirement that the entire student body be in the Corps of Cadets. Even these groundbreaking changes, which altered the entire aim of the university, were not enough to stifle the enduring Aggie spirit...
According to Republican Club president Anne L Berry '01, the dinner was held "to celebrate being a conservative and to let other conservatives meet each other...
...really involved in the industry, and most of the people they approached for the compilation have not done any studio work at all. So their idea was to take these people with good musical knowledge and see what would happen if they put them in the studio and let them create their own track from beginning to end, and that's what Torchbearers is. I had a great time doing it, and I am really impressed with the outcome...
...Island or lose the war. [I]f we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the light of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say 'This was their finest hour.'" These words, along with Churchill's deeds, moved a country to withstand the most overwhelming odds...