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...Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Coordinator of Student Activities Susan T. Cooke are in charge of doling out the precious real estate, most of it located in the basements of Yard dorms. For student groups, the process of winning this space can be frustrating and at times seem unfair. Epps and Cooke decide on a case-by-case basis what groups from a pool of applicants will get space when it becomes available Too often, groups that need the room--publications, organizations with large memberships--go without space, while barely active clubs and magazines keep theirs...
...protected more than 600,000 acres of land," says Bennett. "But more than 60,000 homes can be built in areas already zoned for development. SOAR is an attempt to say some areas have to remain precious." Opposition came mainly from a local farmers' organization. Why? An appraisal by the city of Ventura concluded that 87 acres would be worth $1.6 million as farmland but $13 million if zoned for development. "The people of this county have taken away my property rights," says Howard Atkinson, 51, who inherited part of a 57-acre ranch...
...early contests. "It's a smart move, snatching up every Christian Coalition and evangelical person that he can," says Bobbie Gobel, head of the Christian Coalition in Iowa, who lost her executive director to Forbes because she couldn't match his offer. Rivals, who back-load salaries to preserve precious cash, charge that Forbes is paying outsize prices to drain the talent pool. Says one who got away: "I don't even think I'm worth what they were offering...
Kureishi's ambitions and concerns seem modest, however, when held up against those of John Taylor. Though Taylor's milieu is as precious as Kureishi's--middle- to upper-class professionals and intellectuals, this time of the Manhattan variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
...when offices are at such a premium, many groups are quick to point fingers at each other for not using their precious space...