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Annoyed with the flagrant paper-wasting tactics of UC campaigns? Feel like exiting the Science Center has turned into a maze which you must navigate your way in and out of the crowd to avoid groups of shouting supporters? Bothered by candidates knocking on your door in the midst of midterm studying? If you need a break from the UC elections, check out “Man of the Year,” a dark comedy that explores what happens when a political satirist runs for the presidency as a joke—and wins. Starring Robin Williams, the film...
...better sense of the city, hit the streets. Hanoi's pulse beats hardest in the maze-like Old Quarter, a collection of 50 streets and alleys, each named for its primary goods, such as silk on Hang Gai and silver on Hang Bac. Art houses sell communist-era propaganda reproduced on posters, canvas and mugs, and galleries offer stroke-perfect replicas of famous paintings for as little...
...service. "An Arab guy wearing the Star of David on my jacket? Nobody knows what to think." In fact, Arab medics--MDA has 75 Arabs among its 1,500 Jerusalem volunteers but is trying to recruit more--are invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city's hermetic ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jews, who cannot accept help from a fellow Jew on the Sabbath. "When three Arabs turn up at the door, it's the last thing the Haredi expect, but they're grateful," says...
...military prison system in Iraq is a labyrinth that currently holds about 25,000 people. Each day, a few more are thrown into the judicial maze - a limbo to which most have no access to lawyers, since they are treated as enemy combatants. U.S. officials stress that the detainee population largely represents people who would likely be involved in insurgent violence or militia activity if they were allowed into the streets. "There are [innocent] people who get swept up," said U.S. Col. Mark Martins, a staff judge advocate who works on law and order issues with Iraqi authorities. "There...
...should instead direct students to third-party loan comparison companies. It is in these companies’ interests to provide impartial comparison data, because they survive by offering quality information, rather than by offering loans directly. If universities pay for loan comparisons while still helping students to navigate the maze of paperwork required for loans, they can fulfill their responsibility to their students while minimizing the potential for corruption.Corporate scandal has been the sustenance of the New York Attorney General’s office for almost a decade. Federal regulations are an effective way of eliminating such scandal...