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...DELAYED REACTION? The outbreak began in August but was not confirmed until Nov.29. Officials in Uganda deny they waited to publicly identify the highly contagious virus until after Queen Elizabeth II and 53 other heads of state had met in the capital, Kampala, on Nov.23 for a Commonwealth summit...
...natural reaction when I read that a family making $180,000 per annum will possibly qualify for financial aid is to cringe. But Harvard’s recent announcement that, along with eliminating all loans, it will provide aid for some families earning between $120,000 and 180,00, gave me new rise. In some cases, a family earning $180,000 might only be responsible for paying ten percent of their income, which is not even half the cost of a full tuition. My gut tells me that it is a lot of money, earned by a small percentage...
...working at UCLA during the fallout after Ice Cube left NWA. How did this turn you to hip-hop? MM: I was teaching a course on urban speech communities, it was a classical anthropology course, and I kept getting all these essays about Ice Cube and so my first reaction was, “Hip-hop in the classroom? Stop it.” But they basically argued that this is an anthropological course, it’s about urban centers, et cetera, we absolutely need to write about this, and that’s when I became much more...
...organic chemistry problem set “buzzed—with a deep purple Asian glow.” In the end Razon agrees Chen has more resemblance to Mother Theresa than a fun tsarina. “I make fun of her sometimes for having this terrible allergic reaction to peanuts,” Razon says. One time, he recalls, she was working for PBHA’s Summer Urban Program, and one program hadn’t received the lunch they expected. “They asked her ‘can you please make 60 peanut butter...
...France is heavily engaged in mediating an agreement over the presidency. France has been particularly active, with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner spending much of the past three weeks in Beirut shuttling between bickering Lebanese politicians while other French officials have consulted the Syrian leadership. In reaction to the bomb attack, a clearly exasperated Kouchner said it was a "cowardly attack that shows a clear intention to cause instability," adding that the correct response is to proceed with the presidential election...