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...University task force recommends that the troubled Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) be dissolved and its programs distributed among Harvard schools after a six-month review...
...numerous inaccuracies. In an article published on Sept. 9 by the New York Times Magazine, Kilson said that top educational institutions in the U.S. had "politicized" their admissions procedures and had lowered their qualifications for blacks, targeting Princeton as a prime example. 24 - The University shuttle service begins a six-month trial period. Luckily for Quadlings, the University decides to keep the service. 25 - 1,200 students pack into Lowell Lecture Hall for Economics 10, in what is the highest preliminary enrollment for any course in years...
Even though the typical Gator earns only $11,700, plus a rent allowance, for a six-month hockey season, there has been a spirited competition among league players to win a berth in Lafayette--and keep it. That helps explain the team's excellent play: it posted a 43-18-9 regular-season record, including nine victories against its in-state archrivals. "We've had our way with them, and our fans take a lot of pride in that," Regard says. "People are learnin' to hate Baton Rouge and New Orleans all over again...
...month sojourn in Sierra Leone cost the country $35 million, they got the job done. The rebels were smashed and confined to small pockets of the country, the diamond fields secured and Foday Sankoh forced to the negotiating table to discuss allowing free elections. (By contrast, the projected six-month cost of the shambolic U.N. mission before it went badly wrong was $260 million...
...Friday plunge, while the Dow had soared by 217 points. Earlier, traders spooked by New York's frightful Friday fled Asian markets in droves, shaving 7 percent off Tokyo's Nikkei index and 8.6 percent off Hong Kong's Hang Seng. London's FTSE fell 4 percent to a six-month low in the first minutes of trading before leveling out, along with similarly hit European markets, into a holding pattern ahead of New York's opening. Despite Monday's good news, the market remains nervous. "The choppiness in the market is by no means over," says TIME business editor...