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...Perhaps most importantly, HUDS will have to be responsive to student needs to earn their business. This means that they will have to operate at the hours that are convenient to students. A 2005 Undergraduate Council survey found that 87 percent of students would prefer to eat dinner after 7:15 p.m. (the current closing time of River Houses) at least five days a week. If HUDS had to compete for student business, it would almost certainly stay open till 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. to draw late-dining residents. Similarly, a HUDS responsive to student tastes would...
...style mix - a Third Way - was often discussed; but reactionaries like Chile's Augusto Pinochet and communists like Cuba's Fidel Castro gave it no room to breathe. Now, with democracy more entrenched in the region, the two camps have been forced to face the fact that Latin voters prefer fresh ideas to stale ideology - and that they don't want the U.S. to either invade or go home, but simply behave more respectfully south of the border...
Whatever the final outcome of the cases, the deaths of Litvinenko and Politkovskaya have chilled Russia's already frosty civil society, and revived memories most Russians would prefer to forget. Back in the bad old days of Soviet rule, fear was prevalent. People who spoke up against Kremlin authoritarianism knew what to expect: harassment, isolation, imprisonment and worse. Most people dared to grumble only in the relative safety of their own kitchens, but a hardy few - advocates of freedom such as Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky - made their dissent public...
...time to get a grip. According to a 2003 Pew Forum poll, 42 percent of Americans believe that homosexuality “is just the way that some people prefer to live,” in what is an insidiously easy assumption to make. Haggard’s case, making no excuses for his behavior, is a telling example of precisely why such a claim, widespread as it is, stretches the imagination to no end. When a pious man with everything to lose tries to deny his true nature, yet still fails—and is forced into deception...
...against diamonds per se, especially now that the industry is taking steps to clean up their practices. But I personally would prefer something less commonplace, more practical and definitely more personal. -Rebecca...