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...While there are endless examples of selfless and modest students across this campus, an underlying feeling of entitlement reigns quietly supreme. As I worked with the College Events Board and First Year Social Committee to plan events throughout this year, I was surprised to find that many students, unaffiliated with social programming, were armed and ready with detailed post-mortem lists about how each and every event should have been...
...there are proposed or actual cuts in financial aid, what it tends to do is discourage low- and moderate-income students disproportionately because they often don’t have the [college] counselors,” he said. “Those kinds of things will affect students of modest means to a much greater extent...
...Slightly smaller rival Shell spent 25% more on capital and exploration in 2006, and the other oil majors spent more than ExxonMobil relative to their size. The Dallas-based industry leader still reports that its oil and gas reserves are growing. But recent gains have been modest, and most have been in natural gas, not the crude that is refined into gasoline...
...Plans for the CVC actually predate the first Iraq war. In the 1980s, a group of lawmakers envisioned it as a modest structure to hold visitors waiting for tours of Capitol Hill. The project stalled during the '90s because of cost concerns, but Congress signed on to the project in 1998 after a lunatic gunman killed two Capitol police, according to Rep. John Mica, a Florida Republican and longtime CVC supporter. Construction began in 2000 with a budget of $265 million and a completion date of 2004. Then came September 11 and the Anthrax scare on Capitol Hill. More security...
...arms through the bars of the cell and cuffed them so tightly he couldn't move. Then, he says, she poked his eye with her finger so hard he couldn't see afterward. Three months after the incident, Mohammed's left eye was gray and glassy, allowing only modest vision of blurry shapes. He says the guards at Abu Ghraib drank whisky and walked the halls with cans of beer. And he says he saw an American guard having regular sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner on the floor above and across the hall from his cell...