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...they might, Square Residents cannot forget Real Taco. Painful images of its mercifully brief stay still fester in our minds—the liquid guacamole squirting from ketchup bottles, the inexplicable mélange of salad bar leftovers masking a meager amount of grey chicken and the universal look of shock and anger prompted by the bill...
...found her success in the water business. She worked her way through college and earned a chemistry degree, but she always saw the business world as the way to climb out of poverty. Fifteen years ago, drawing on her meager savings, she founded Hyflux, a company that pursued a wide range of water-related ventures in Asia, from cleaning wastewater in China to investing in desalination plants in Singapore...
...pedagogy, general education, concentrations and students’ overall academic experience—have already turned in their preliminary findings to Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who manages the curricular review, the only thing students and faculty uninvolved in the process have seen is a meager four-page “interim report.” This report is heavy on vague generalities and light on concrete details. The College community needs more before Wolcowitz and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 release their polished report this spring. We look forward...
...back to last July. The site’s online message board, which would provide a virus-free and unrestricted alternative to House lists, also has yet to take off. Rounding out the services offered, the events calendar seems respectable (if sparse), but the job listings are a bit meager. Fortunately, Aaron J. Greenspan ’05, the creator and primary administrator of the site, has plans to add a variety of new services including a CD-sharing network and a convenient system for communicating details about campus events, and it seems plausible that a great deal of useful...
...damage on America's image as an exporter of democratic institutions. As more than 2,000 U.S., French and other international peacekeeping troops began policing Port-au-Prince's streets last week, it was hard to forget that Haiti's newest crisis resulted in part from the U.S.'s meager effort when it last intervened there. That was in 1994, when 20,000 U.S. troops restored Aristide to power after his first presidency had been aborted by a brutal military coup three years earlier. Says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General Joseph Kinzer, who headed 6,000 U.N. troops in Haiti...