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...council cannot currently fund every request made by campus student groups, and it should not attempt to. Among the numerous projects the Financial Committee (FiCom) rejected (or denied full funding to) in the past year can be found a $15,000 grant request of the Automotive Society for a go-kart expedition and a host of other white elephant undertakings...
...told the President the following: In our first meeting about three years ago, I accepted your request not to harm Arafat physically ... but I am released from that pledge." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, recounting what he told President Bush at their recent meeting in Washington regarding an earlier pledge not to harm Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...
Members also voted that if the referendum fails, the council can retroactively request an increase in inflation since 2001—the last time the fee was raised...
...August 1991, a student at the University of Helsinki posted a request to an Internet discussion group asking for help on a project to build a free computer operating system (OS). Linus Torvalds wanted an OS that he could tinker with. But neither Apple nor Microsoft was much interested in giving away the codes that make their machines...
With this simple request, Torvalds began a process that would complete one of the most extraordinary collaborations in history. In 1984 M.I.T. researcher Richard Stallman had launched the "free-software movement" in a project to build a free operating system that he called GNU. It provided the scaffolding within which Torvalds' kernel ("Linux") could hang. In the dozen years since Torvalds' post, literally thousands of programmers from around the world have authored and tinkered with the GNU and Linux code to produce Microsoft's most dreaded competition. Microsoft's fear is not that this GNU/Linux OS is better. It might...