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...knows your name. Seriously. After declaring, you hand-pick an advisor. While your economics-concentrating roommate gets some bumbling grad student who went to Idaho State, you can choose absolutely anyone, regardless of their University professorship, how many books they’ve authored, or academic rock-star status. You can even request two professors to be available for weekly check-ins, junior paper advising, or default company at your House faculty dinner. And there is at least one all-you-can-eat sushi party every semester. Add some sake-bombs and you may as well be concentrating at Shilla...
...lost to antiquity, you refer to your Expos section leader as a “preceptor.” Your preceptor occupies a rung on the staff ladder somewhere above TFs. They are the nomads of the academy. It is considered rude to ask them about their tenure status. The number of A-range grades is rumored to be capped across sections, so competition for grades can be intense. That said, grading is sometimes arbitrary, and naturally some preceptors are more gung-ho about their charge than others. If you take an Expos with “Athletes?...
Instead of the famously simple Facebook interface, users woke up to a detailed rundown of profile updates, changes to relationship status, wall posts, group memberships, and more—a convenient digest of time-stamped information that had been available all along...
...This key Curia post had been held by another Italian power player, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. Replacing Sepe with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, was proof that the Pope isn't afraid to take on the Vatican status quo. It also was an acknowledgment that the man responsible for overseeing more than a thousand dioceses in the developing world might best be chosen from the developing world...
...Unable to secure Israeli movement toward a settlement based on the Arab League's Beirut principles, he may be hoping that Israel would at least release the hundreds of millions of dollars of PA revenue it is currently holding. But the Israeli leadership may be inclined to use the status of those funds as leverage over Hamas on security issues...