Word: sittings
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...Administrative Board has been a perennial source of frustration among Harvard undergraduates, few students have opted for an alternative body of adjudication. Just recently, however, it came to light that the Undergraduate council is working with the Dean’s office to search for four students to sit on the Student Faculty Judicial Board, a disciplinary body established in 1987 as an alternative to the Administrative Board. The SFJB exists specifically for cases for which the Administrative Board has no precedent and for which the outcome could have community-wide repercussions.Yet in the last 21 years, the SFJB...
...less-prosperous parts of the country. This exodus - the reversal of more than two decades of migration from poor rural areas to faster-growing, coastal cities - is most visible at the Guangzhou train station, where hundreds of migrants, all bearing suitcases and shopping bags crammed with their worldly belongings, sit outside for hours waiting to board trains home. On Nov. 26, Zhang De Jun, 35, was one of them. For 10 years, he said, he worked in a sweater factory not far from Dongguan. His wife, seated next to him, worked at a toy factory. Both had lost their jobs...
...program, $12 is saved on law enforcement, judicial, and health costs. While both sides debate the issue, ultimately the decision on HAT's fate is up to the voters. If they reject the law, the program's future is hazy. And that's one scenario that doesn't sit well with Heun. "For everyone's sake," she says, "I really hope the people will vote 'yes.'" Otherwise, she fears she and her fellow addicts might be be back on the streets...
Back at Damaris' apartment, we sit at the table and pick stones out of the red beans she bought: the vendors put pebbles in to drive up their margins. The mix today is about one part rocks, four parts beans. Damaris shrugs. "You wake up thinking about where to get breakfast, you eat breakfast thinking about where to get lunch, and on it goes," she says. "To be Cuban is to be tired...
...actually started volunteering there last Thanksgiving,” Britto said. “I’m actually really excited about my shift this year because I have the opportunity to sit down with a lot of the guests throughout the day and talk to them...