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...than one job at the University could receive one paycheck for both jobs. Until this summer, students sometimes received a different paycheck for each job they worked. When it was finally brought on-line in late September, the system proved confusing to some students. Even worse, reports began to pile up that students were not even getting paid for their work. Although the old system—really an amalgamation of several different payroll systems—was unwieldy, it was irresponsible of the administration to switch to the new system without testing it beforehand...
...Patt says, students receive no special place in the pile of visa applications...
...says that her creation in faux-fur, “Nausea,” which consists of nine yards of white plush fabric draped over chicken wire, is a condemnation of “sickeningly excessive sentimentality.” The column, which resembles a pile of vomited intestines, is more likely to revolt the viewer than evoke the “warm and fuzzy” emotions associated with its fabric...
...Frank K. Ellington ’06 had a paper due in his TF’s box at 5 p.m., but when he got there at 5:15, her box was still full of other students’ papers, and he put his on the bottom of the pile. “Heh, heh, heh,” he said...
...stomach-clutching thud of an explosion rolled across Kabul at around 9pm last Saturday. It began with a flash in a small garbage pile on a grassy common outside a sprawling Soviet-era tenement. The building is home to several hundred families in the suburb of Microyan, and the detonation, only thirty yards from the ground floor apartments, shattered every window facing the park in the crumbling five-story block. Sleeping children woke terrified, coated in shards of glass. A three-year-old stood by her mother, her face laced with tiny cuts. Two or three people were reported injured...