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...villagers issued a proclamation rejecting the land seizures as illegal and asserting their rights over ancestral plots for them and succeeding generations - rights they said they were prepared to "defend to the death." (Officials of Yicheng, the county seat with jurisdiction over Zhuhai, did not respond to a request by TIME for comment on the case...
...fact that food vendors have raised the prices for the university. One student told The Crimson that Yale had actually expanded sustainable options in all its dining halls. Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, former chair of HUDS student advisory committee, told The Crimson that HUDS can request what they’d like to change in the board rate, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) must approve the figure. He added that HUDS may be constrained by what FAS thinks HUDS needs. Perhaps FAS isn’t aware of the recent menu changes. In that...
...those great personal efforts,” Martin said. “I do not think there will ever be a time when we presume to take away the trays.” Even during the trial run in Quincy, students were able to request a tray. Sometimes busy days warrant trays, Martin said, “Heaven forbid you break your arm,” she added. The test run in Quincy reflects a trend in university dining halls across the country. St. Joseph’s College in Maine first introduced trayless dining this fall. Several other colleges...
...Francisco, claiming a disgruntled ex-employee had passed stolen internal documents to Wikileaks, a venue for anonymous whistle-blowers to post allegations of corporate or government misconduct. The site says those materials detail money laundering and tax evasion at Julius Baer's Cayman Islands branch. At the bank's request, Judge Jeffrey White issued an injunction sealing Wikileaks' U.S. address...
...remedy the dark social ills, especially the misery of millions of neglected rural Colombians, which started the civil war in the first place. Concern about that aspect of Colombia's tragedy, in fact, has prompted the U.S. Congress to slash President Bush's 2008 military aid request for Colombia by 30% - not least of all because even Colombia's modernized military is still reportedly prone to ugly human rights abuses - and to raise social and economic...