Word: london
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...Science concentrators even bother to consider studying abroad under the present system. Magistrelli says only five or six students who have wandered into her office asking about study abroad are science concentrators. Nancy Pfeffer '81, chemistry and physics concentrator, wanted to take science courses at the University of London but gave up after William Skocpol, associate professor of Physics and member of CUE and the Council, told her it would be "very difficult" to convince the professors in her concentration that she should receive credit for her scientific studies abroad...
...monetary muddle, Blaylock interviewed more than two dozen members of a club he calls "the world champs of legerdemain-economists and bankers." Blaylock is thoroughly qualified for the assignment. He has a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and another from the London School of Economics. It was at Johns Hopkins in 1971 that Blaylock first encountered Volcker, then Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Volcker had been asked to address the students on the future of the dollar and gold in the international monetary system. Blaylock recalls that the Under Secretary, "with a comforting...
...underscore their approval, investors in London promptly chopped a sharp $13 off the price of gold; during the preceding weeks it had climbed by more than $100 to hit a momentary alltime high of $447 an ounce before settling back to about $385 at the beginning of October. Not only did the yellow metal on Monday droop to $372, but the dollar rebounded smartly on international exchanges, suggesting that its latest round of being bullied was coming...
Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics, as well as Abdus Salam, director of the Italian-based International Center for Theoretical Physics and professor of physics at the London imperial College of Sciences and Technology, share the award...
...most poignant reminder of this racial gulf is the wrenching reunion between Rosa and her black childhood friend Baasie in London. After meeting at a party and exchanging social inanities, Baasie calls Rosa in the middle of the night. Raging, he taunts her for her pride in Lionel, reminding her that anonymous black men are killed every day, and they are no less heroic than her father. She counters brutally until they fall tidily into the roles apartheid has prescribed for them--bitter black, guilty white...