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...heavy guilt." Mohnhaupt may be paroled next month, and her prison warden said her psychological assessment showed no risk of "backsliding." Klar is not eligible for parole until 2009, but he has appealed for early release. "Of course, I have to acknowledge my guilt," he wrote in that 2003 request. "I understand the feelings of the victims and I regret the suffering of these people." German President Horst Köhler is expected to decide on the appeal next month...
...spend their last two years in college thinking about video games. But for Ben S. Decker ’08, his special concentration in “Interactive Media” requires it. Decker, a former psychology concentrator, learned over winter break that his unusual plan of study request would be granted. “Let’s not beat around the bush... my intention is to study video games,” his application read. Decker’s concentration in “ludology”—the study of video games from...
...make it easy for their students to obtain course books at low cost. The solution is almost too obvious: professors should publish the ISBN numbers of course-required texts in syllabi and course-wide emails in order to facilitate easy ordering by students. This is not an unreasonable request, given that professors submit their reading lists to the Coop several weeks before the semester begins. Additionally, professors ought to design the first week or so of their courses in such a way that students who do choose to order books online—thus, having to wait longer for books?...
...conflict erupted between freshman Cambridge City Councillor Craig A. Kelley and the rest of the council during yesterday’s meeting, after a discussion of pothole repair gave way to a critique of Kelley’s administrative approach. Councillors assailed Kelley for his tendency to request longer, more quantitative reports from City Manager Robert W. Healy than do the rest of his peers. The council spends a portion of each weekly meeting discussing reports from the city manager, who is responsible for implementing policy initiatives that the council promulgates. Last night’s tussle began during discussion...
...moves to nationalize energy reserves, the latest challenge to Washington from La Paz comes from the Bolivian judiciary: Last Thursday, the Bolivian Supreme Court allowed the indictment of former president Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada to face trial over the killing of demonstrators in October 2003. Soon, a request for the apprehension of Sanchez de Lozada will arrive in the U.S., where he has lived since resigning four years ago, and that could pose a dilemma for the Bush Administration...