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...failed to achieve quorum at its most recent meeting. Over the past four years, votes at a third of FAS’s meetings have been meaningless because our rotating deans could not gather a sixth of the Faculty’s 700-or-so members—the minimum threshold for votes to become University...
...members.” Chadbourne said he had not yet determined the amount of the award. “As a student myself, I am not in the position to endow millions of dollars to give a huge prize,” Chadbourne said. University policy calls for a minimum of $25,000 to establish the cheapest variety of permanent award. Originally questioned as an April Fool’s joke over the UC general e-mail list, the self-titled award was announced under a blurry panorama centered on Lowell House, where Chadbourne lived as an undergraduate...
...year, a crushing trend in a country where three-quarters of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Only Somalia and Afghanistan have a higher per capita daily deficit in calorie intake than Haiti does. (The figure in Haiti is 460 calories below the United Nations' daily minimum of 2,100.) The U.N.'s World Food Program says it has received only 13% of the $96 million it needs to help Haiti's 10 million people in 2008 - barely enough to support its operations there through the end of this month. Due to an estimated 55% rise...
...into the sixth inning but O’Hara lashed a leadoff single into left field to spoil it. After he was erased on a double play, senior Jeff Stoeckel lined a base hit into the same spot in left, accounting for the only batter Roth faced over the minimum. “We heard [Harvard was struggling],” Roth said. “I guess you don’t believe it until you see it and they really are struggling.” Haviland surrendered seven runs (two earned) and 12 hits, only...
Meanwhile, unions continue to hold sway over a critical bloc of leftist politicians who say the singular priority is to limit job cuts to a minimum. At the same time, there is another sideshow: leaders from the North and from Rome are fighting with each other over whether to keep Milan's Malpensa airport as the key international hub for the airline, or return that role to Rome's Fiumicino...