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...We’ve been looking for efficiencies at this point,” Smith said, adding in response to a question that eliminating or merging academic departments has not yet been discussed...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Deans Answer Few Budget Questions | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...We’ve reached a point where we need to talk about the big ideas,” Hammonds said from her perch atop the table to roughly 50 students in attendance, emphasizing that the six working groups Smith charged with proposing possible cuts would strive to be as transparent as possible...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Deans Answer Few Budget Questions | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...Dalai Lama seemed at every turn to want to soften the hard intellectual mood - to have a flickering back-and-forth with the other panelists. He took his shoes off at one point and carefully folded his legs underneath him - first the left, then the right. He loudly blew his nose into a tissue at one point, and he laughed a lot with those great sparkly eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mind Games: The Dalai Lama Takes Harvard | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...many of those top students. Typically, while admissions officials say Berea has a 54% chance of snagging a student who scores between 540 and 650 on the verbal section of the SAT, the chance of enrolling an applicant who gets between 660 and 800 is only 40%. Case in point: Bagnoli says he received a call on May 1 from a parent who reported that his daughter had gotten into Stanford, where her financial aid would cover four years of tuition, room, board and fees as well as a travel stipend. "They didn't know how they could pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deci$ion$: How One College Snags So Many Students | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...tributes to their girlfriends or wives, ranging from conservative head portraits to provocative bikini pinups. One driver adorned his bus with a woman dressed in loincloth slaying a grizzly bear with a knife, raising questions about his home life that no one dares ask (as if to make the point, a painted sign on the inside of the bus reminds passengers not to bother the bus driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama City Tries to Exorcise Its Red Devils | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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