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...seven years’ worth of alumni files—which amounts to more than 500 files total in some Houses. The assistant also sends out recommendation letters for students applying to graduate or pre-professional schools. Additionally, he or she is often the sole “point of access” in Houses, providing students with impromptu counseling and advising, and fielding questions about academic policies, according to a memorandum presented to the College Working Group by assistants to the resident deans of all 12 Houses. “I can’t imagine the House functioning...
...HUDS blog, an anonymous commenter made an interesting point about the logic behind the hot breakfast...
...days' notice. It's still possible for an issuer to assess a fee when you go over your credit limit - but only if you indicate that you want to be able to go over your credit limit in the first place, instead of having your card denied at the point of purchase. Companies can still set minimum required payments however they see fit. But they'll be required to tell you how long it would take to pay off your balance if you stick to that minimum amount each month...
...allowed to meet with the detained American swimmer, who was identified by the official Burmese media as 53-year-old former military serviceman John William Yettaw of Falcon, Missouri. Previous articles about him in the state press spelled his name different ways, but U.S. public records online do point to the existence of a John W. Yettaw residing in the Ozarks. Kyi Win, another of Suu Kyi's lawers, said that her uninvited guest was a Mormon; a 2007 obituary for a son of John W. Yettaw said the deceased young man had also been a member of the Church...
...Crisis of Identity To criticize Pakistan's leaders, however - much though they may deserve it - is to miss the point. It is ordinary people, locked in a series of personal Pakistans, who seem unable or unwilling to unite over the threat to their nation. Pakistanis will point to the oppressive hand of history or the machinations of foreign nations to explain their descent into chaos, and to a certain extent both have played a role. But no one bears more responsibility for a slow collective suicide than Pakistanis themselves. A set of failures has contributed to Pakistan's fall...