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...meet those goals,” Kirby said. But another University Hall administrator says that because the fund is not permanent, it is an untenable long-term solution to the problems the College has faced in funding undergraduate initiatives.“I’m not trying to paint it as a dire situation, but it’s not sustainable,” says the administrator. “[The fund] is not the answer.”But Bingle, who serves on the executive committee of the HCF, says that the Undergraduate Life Fund...
...manifested itself in an uncanny ability to get to the line.Time and again, when opposing defenses clamped down on captain Matt Stehle and Goffredo, Housman would shake his defender with a dribble move and take the ball to the basket, unafraid to draw contact from the behemoths in the paint. He took 119 free throws on the season, second on the team to Stehle, and converted at a solid 76.5 percent.In light of the number of hits Housman took in the paint, the point guard’s durability was perhaps the most impressive aspect of his performance. The rookie...
...orchestrated by militia groupie Timothy McVeigh and, later, the failure of a Y2K bug to trigger the mass chaos some militia members expected. "We've seen people from Missouri and Kentucky militias involved in border-vigilante activity, especially with the gung-ho Arizona group Ranch Rescue that used face paint, military uniforms and weapons," says Mark Pitcavage, fact-finding director of the ADL. "It's a natural shift. Militias fell on hard times, and this anti-immigration movement is new and fresh...
...spot where the IED went off, killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terazzas and starting the chain of terrible events, has been repaired with fresh concrete. The four houses where the tragedy unfolded have recently been patched up. The bullet holes have been filled, the scorch marks from FRAG grenades painted over and walls repaired. ?A stranger would not know anything special had happened there,? says Taher Thabet, a local journalism student and human-rights worker whose video first brought the Haditha massacre to TIME's attention. ?But those of us who live there, we look at the fresh concrete...
After absinthe, sake-tinis and soy-based vodkas, what's the next big thing in spirits going to be? Quite possibly tequila?but not the paint-stripping firewater that gave you no end of college hangovers. Instead, look for upmarket tequilas better suited to sophisticated, postprandial sipping rather than dilution with margarita mix. There's certainly a renewed consumer interest in premium brands of the spirit. According to the Distilled Spirits Council in the U.S., sales by volume of premium tequila jumped by a total of over 50% in 2003 and 2004?a trend some attribute to increased acceptance...