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...HoCos will receive $1,000, and an additional $366 will go to Dudley House. These figures will be in addition to the money the UC already distributes to HoCos. Traditionally, the Council divides 25 percent of its budget each semester across the 12 Houses equally and awards Dudley one-sixteenth of that amount plus $1,000. This semester, $4,870 has already been allocated to each HoCo and $1,780 to Dudley. The rest of the approximately $17,000 that would have funded party grants in past semesters will remain in the Council’s general grants pool that...
...evening and playing them for the rolling cameras the next day. “The beat almost never was where I thought it was,” Fleck told the audience as a clip of one of his jams sessions was screened. “I was often one-sixteenth off.” After his African adventure, Fleck effectively put his musical career on a three-year hiatus in order to edit the film, which will premiere at the South by Southwest music festival. Fleck claims that the whirlwind nature of his tour of Africa did not allow...
...issue becomes a deeper question of private property rights and the good of the community.In the 1970s, Austin was still a sleepy liberal enclave in the middle of ultra-red Texas. The movie starts at the beginning of Austin’s boom and traces its transformation into the sixteenth-largest city in the nation with the third-highest growth rate from 2000 to 2006. In a brilliant move, the first part of the film seduces the viewer with Austin’s appeal—Willie Nelson, cowboys, and democrats—while the second half outlines the city?...
What do the great-grandson of a diamond prospector, a tapeworm, and Edward Said have in common? They each figure as a central character in one of the first three stories of “Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black,” the newest collection of short fiction from prolific octogenarian author and Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The motley assembly of characters is only one aspect of the absence of internal logic that characterizes Gordimer’s most recent collection, an amalgam of 13 stories that previously appeared in periodicals ranging from “The New Yorker?...
...three children through harsh winters, plagues and food shortages, and prospered as a maltmaker and moneylender. Anne, not William, purchased and restored New Place, the grand home to which he would eventually retire. Although the Shakespeares lived apart most of their married lives, Greer rejects the notion of estrangement. Sixteenth century laws criminalized "living away from a wife." Greer reasons that if William did abandon Anne, and she did not denounce him, she must have been protecting...