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...early 2004, the school announced it would scale back its Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), barring alumni from receiving aid for more than three years...
This year, on Oct. 8, three days after Khan took office as mayor, an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale slammed into the Himalayas, killing more than 73,000 people in Pakistan. Batagram was one of the worst-hit towns. That morning, Khan had strolled up a dirt path to visit his mother's grave when the force of the quake hurled him to his knees. "I thought it was doomsday, that the earth would open and swallow me up," he says. "The houses on the ridge--they were exploding...
...expresses himself on a grand scale nightly, Bono is surprisingly stunted when it comes to talking about how he deals with the pressure he has brought upon himself. "I don't talk about this stuff to anybody," he says. "Of course, I don't talk about it to the band--it's boring enough for them onstage. When I go home, I don't want to talk about it. When I'm with my mates, I just don't. I think about it, and I allow occasionally enough time to think about it in moments of reflection...
...quarter of the upperclass student body should be addressed, despite the fact that the author considers them “trivial distractions.” Just because a particular population is in a minority, should its opinion be ignored? The author’s senseless statement reflects a larger-scale obliviousness to the importance of minority representation, whether that minority be economic, racial, sexual, or, in this particular situation, geographic...
...Although Haddock and Riley originally advocated a student referendum on the council’s role in campus-wide social events, they argued from the beginning of the campaign that the UC should not have any involvement in large-scale social programming. Toward the end of the campaign, Haddock said he would support a separate programming board...