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...down with new people and introduce yourself straight up. The House is the great equalizer, and the importance of class years fades away as strong friendships and mentorships form. 3. On the other hand, don’t lose track of friends in other Houses. Close friends may be split up because of the randomization of housing assignments, but that is no excuse to be insular. Once you befriend your housemates, and your friends from freshman year do the same, your circle of friendship can expand exponentially. Visiting a friend in another House opens up a new world of social...
This year, the College introduced neighborhood blocking. Blocking groups were able to link with other groups to ensure that the two would be in nearby houses. The innovation is a clever way to prevent the Quad-River split between friends in different blocking groups that so many first-years fear, and it addresses the needs of friends who are close, but not quite close enough to enter the House lottery together. Thanks to linking, blocking this year has been a bit easier...
...Minchin Melbourne, Australia What even the ordinary man in the street foresaw before the Bush Administration started its war has at last come true: a country that the dictator Saddam held together with a brutal, tight grip is spinning out of control. People unaccustomed to democracy and split by long-lasting rivalries are unlikely to seek peaceful coexistence. Maybe the American ideal of a national melting pot enticed the Bush Administration into irresponsibly simplifying the complicated situation in Iraq. Hans Gerbig Gersthofen, Germany The choice in Iraq seems increasingly to be between imposing a police state or unleashing a civil...
...bigger and which should get a larger share of oil revenues and political representation. Holding a census has been so controversial that successive governments have put it off for the past 15 years. Guesses at the population of Nigeria range from 120 million to 150 million, probably about equally split between the Muslim north and the Christian south. One thing's for sure: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa; at least one in six Africans hail from the West African state...
Although Thaksin split up his assets when he became Prime Minister, his family is worth about $2 billion...