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...NCAA tournament. This year’s Penn team just might be in position to make something of its invitation, too. Seniors Ibrahim Jaaber and Mark Zoller, the mighty Quakers who have terrorized the rest of the league over their four-year tenure in Philadelphia, bring the oft-hailed tournament experience to the Big Dance...
...Kruger makes it a point to note an oft-forgotten purpose of the festivities she has now successfully coordinated...
...wish to pursue two divergent passions, she says, while joint concentrations are for those willing to write a thesis on their intersection. “Sometimes I feel like I’m not really part of any department at all,” continues Brettman, airing an oft-cited complaint of joint concentrators about the lack of advising.“I think joint concentrations are kind of a nightmare for students,” says Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08. Petersen served as a student representative on the Educational Policy Committee that...
Here’s the real question, though: Are that many Americans really shocked, or are media outlets simply using what used to be a national issue to spark controversy against an oft-criticized sect of our population? After all, the days of politicians denouncing gangsta rap and smashing tapes on national TV are long gone. And besides a few Eminem references about Dick Cheney’s wife and the occasional hunting joke, the vice president’s name isn’t being trashed by rappers with anywhere near the same kind of ferocity...
...could go wrong than go right," says political analyst Tahseen al-Shekhli. "We have seen too many plans fail to have any faith in this one." Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a lifelong Shi'ite partisan, has shown little patience for Sunni grievances and has failed to start an oft-promised national reconciliation process. So despite his professed conviction that the security operation is working, chances remain high that it will eventually falter, brought down by the inability of Sunnis and Shi'ites to find a political settlement or the reduction of U.S. forces that is bound to happen...