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...subdued for a Saturday night in late February. In Dakar's popular Sicap Baobab district, the normally packed Toucan restaurant was empty and quiet, save for the voice of local pop star Cheikh Lô coming from speakers above the bar. In 1996 Lô hit international fame with Né La Thiass (Gone in a Flash), which warned about sudden changes of destiny. With Senegal emerging from a tumultuous election, the most keenly contested in its history, that lyric is timely again, echoing sentiment about the country's tippy democratic traditions and life under newly re-elected 80-year...
...spend the next three years. The endeavor aimed to foster racial mixing and end the concentration of minority students and athletes in certain houses. Reaction to this plan was fairly mixed at first, with some student minority leaders expressing doubts about the consequences of the move. For instance, Derrick N. Ashong ’97, a former president of the BSA, worried that the plan would cause splintering in the Black community...
...this, but Stillman Infirmary limits “vacations” to a week in length. So just give up, surrender, and enjoy the gayest day of your life. FOOTNOTES: 1. Blockstab – v. to engage in any lying, deceit or betrayal associated with blocking 2. Fugmo - n. super ugly person, probably with a snaggletooth, the complete opposite of the lovely Derek C. Bok 3. Gay – adj. used to describe anything negative
...quartile to the fourth. (Since then, the iconoclastic school has suffered no shortage of qualified applicants.) U.S. News now plugs in whatever data it can find for nonparticipants. "They won't let you quit," Drew president Weisbuch says of the magazine's data collectors. "I would spell it U.S. N...
...Further, the discussion within CHL about moving the party fund into HoCo hands has been as much about regulation concerns as about actually improving social life. Some of the strongest proponents for the change have been the House masters, according to Alexander N. Li ’08, who is the chair of the UC’s Finance Committee, which currently oversees the party fund. HoCos, so the reasoning goes, would have some advantage over the UC in knowing the logistics of their house. They are more likely to know which rooms are or could be reasonably joined...