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...will not become the next Ground Zero, but if the [Undergraduate Council] can help us financially, we would like share our home,” said Danielle L. Buckley ’06. Three weeks into the school year, the residents of the White House have thrown one large-scale party and no teas. They have no plans for entertaining the masses in the near future, but never fear: Halloween is less than a month away...
Like anyone throughout the ages, David has more than one side. Pinsky points out the singular importance of seeing his protagonist at every age, because “in his faults and attainments, his losses and victories, [he] embodies on a scale almost beyond imagining the action of living a life.” David and the scripture that he occupies are keys to modern religious life, yet each of them defies easy labels. Like faith itself, what you see in each of them—ideas of good and bad, of pious and heretic—is a matter...
...Cunha, Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League in Fresno, Calif., whose organization represents 1,000 small farmers, says this year's shortage is real, and likely to affect much more than the Central San Joaquin Valley. Winter lettuce, broccoli, and other crops could be next, then the large-scale agricultural producers in Texas and Florida, not to mention hotels, slaughterhouses and restaurants. "Businesses across the country depend on unauthorized foreign labor," Cunha says. "Congress must develop good immigration policies, now rather than later...
...Sept. 13, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) began a letter-writing campaign aimed at seven of the largest file-sharing companies, including MetaMachine, which set the stage for a large-scale litigation process. Yagan cited this correspondence and high legal costs as the major motivation for his move to privatization...
...Katrina has shown the world America's Achilles' heel: its inability to deliver a quick and coordinated response to a natural disaster [Sept. 12]. Could the U.S. cope effectively with a terrorist attack involving biological or nuclear weapons? More than ever, the U.S. needs big thinking on a big scale. Philippe P. Weber B?ny-Bocage, France...