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...graduate student said, according toFebruary meeting minutes, that the department "isnow thought of all over the country as a locus ofgreat conflict and disorganization...
Landscapers said yesterday that the new arrivals include a wide range of trees and shrubs which will bloom within the next several months: red maples, honey locus, madasequoia, swamp white oaks and dogwood magnolias...
Though Republican leaders of the new Congress have promised to revive funding for Star Wars, the antimissile defense system has long been derided as a military-industrial boondoggle, a locus of Pentagon waste and trumped-up test data. But now some "positive" news: the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization at the Pentagon reports that the $30 billion the U.S. has already invested in Star Wars has generated a new type of plastic that will keep home- delivered pizzas "hot and crisp for two hours." Americans will eat roughly 8 billion pizzas this year.* That works...
...sexual abuse of 15 years past, which now becomes reconstructed as a public legal case. In this sense, the second part of the film is narratively continuous with the first part, yet it also clearly deviates from the more nightmarish techniques and style of its predecessor. The locus of events becomes the public courtroom and the legal machinery surrounding it. Within the drama of this setting come scenes of the private homes and families of each of those involved...
...Dean of the College will remain accessible and accountable to the students --regardless of the choice of Jewett's successor--by choosing the Two-Dean model. Because it is more horizontal than Single-Faculty-Dean, this structure will provide students with a more direct pipeline into the decision-making locus at University Hall. Furthermore, the administrative burden of Super-Dean could ultimately prevent the new Dean from having any direct interaction with students...