Word: sr
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...SR: Actually, I put two fortune cookies in the bag, still wrapped. Truthfully, they were something I knew I could give away and not mind not getting back. And my sister used to paint fortune cookies, so she would approve...
...SR: Yes—the performing arts are definitely more visible. I don’t feel like there aren’t many opportunities on campus—people have complained that if you’re not a hardcore artist, you can’t get into a lot of VES classes, and there are such huge time commitments, like in the photo lab.... With performing arts, there’s a set time and place, but with visual arts you can just wander in and browse around...
...been used, but the administration is already beginning to clamp down on the information it may provide. We worry that Bush’s executive order may be designed more to prevent the release of information that could embarrass officials with connections to the administrations of Reagan and Bush Sr. than to prevent a breach of national security...
Islamic fanatics, on the other hand, just want to kill people, including, it turns out, Gaddafi Sr. "They tried, many times, to assassinate the Leader," he writes. Seif is brandishing an olive branch even as the U.S. extends sanctions against his father's regime. He says that Libya longs to send students to American universities, import U.S. wheat and medicine, invest in the lucrative oil and gas sectors and work with Washington to combat poverty and disease in Africa. "It is time we turned a new leaf," he says. The main obstacle is Libya's refusal to admit involvement...
...check-writing business, is the first to admit her approach to philanthropy combines a desire to help the needy with a geek's approach to problem solving. "Hey, we come out of the math-camp world," she says. So when Stonesifer, who chairs the foundation with Bill Gates Sr., the First Dad of Microsoft, talks about how she plucks winning grant applications from the thousands that pour into her Seattle offices, she can sound as if she's solving for x. "There's an analysis to be done," she explains. "Where are the biggest inequities? Where is the avoidable mortality...