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...Capitalizing on such dominance, Moscow promoters are grabbing for a piece of the business that has long been the exclusive estate of American promoters in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. And they are doing so in their own particular manner...
...what’s most vexing about the administration’s crackdown is its manner of interaction with student groups. The College has shown little-to-no interest in learning about the social situations and pressures students actually encounter, and how its policies might affect their circumstances. Instead, its modus operandi is to demand instant, mandatory meetings with group leaders, present them with vague accusations, and refuse to present specific or helpful evidence to deal with the “problem...
...duty of academics—like many tradesman, and like us students, who thrive on the generosity of others—includes approaching their work in a dignified and responsible manner. While they may be legally free to say and do almost anything, they ought not expect their patrons to appreciate frivolity. Or, as in the case at Columbia, to gladly welcome an insult...
...David Pilbeam’s announcement on Tuesday that he was terminating the system of party grants run by the Undergraduate Council (UC). Much of the outcry regarding Pilbeam’s decision had to do not with the substance of the decision but the unilateral, sudden, and boorish manner in which it was made. Pilbeam’s refusal to communicate openly with students and UC representatives is not only alarming but also paradigmatic of a caustic and imperious attitude towards students that has recently come to grip University Hall.Though the UC and University Hall had been in dialogue...
...hopeless shambles. The party has been out of power since Blair's overwhelming victory in 1997; Cameron is their fourth leader since that rout. He has unsettled traditional Tories with his determination to make the party greener and more humane, and his rejection of social conservatism. His easy manner and impressive oratory skills draws comparisons to Blair. These comparisons once sounded flattering but later, as Blair lost popularity, mutated into taunts; even some members of his own party dismissed Cameron as a bantamweight Blair who would be hopelessly outclassed by the heavyweight Brown. Just before the Tory conference kicked...