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...frosh,” Donahue said. “I think one of the best things about the revisit weekend is that students are able to meet other people from their class, and we don’t want anyone to miss out on that experience because of financial strain...
...other end, Fulvio Collovati knew right away that his buddy was in trouble. Since their days as teammates at Genoa a decade earlier in Italy's top football league, he and Gianluca Signorini telephoned each other often. But this time, Signorini, once a rugged defender, had to strain just to speak. "I'm not well," he told his friend. An intense, unfamiliar pain was spreading through his back. The doctors were worried. He was scared. Collovati - currently general manager of the northern Italian squad Piacenza - shakes his head recalling that conversation in November, 2000. "I had talked to him just...
...Prime Minister, Klaus was elected six days before Adamec died and many see his victory as a triumph of the robber-baron capitalism that so disgusted Adamec. Zdenka Kmunícková, a psychiatrist who attended the burned Palach, says the self-immolations come at a time when the strain of the postcommunist era is building. Milan Cerny, a psychiatrist who was at the time of Palach's death Kmunícková's boss at the psychiatric research center in Prague, blames the deaths on the Palach mystique. "I think the people are solving their own problems...
...farfetched to connect the suicides of two young men - one possibly facing jail, the other lovelorn - to the stress of postcommunist life? Jaroslava Moserová doesn't think so. A senator and physician who treated Palach in the days before he died, she thinks she understands the strain these men were under. She compares the 1989 collapse of communism to tearing down a zoo and letting the predators loose. The past 14 years have been a chaotic, confusing time. But this response, she says, "is futile. During Palach's time there was no other way [to protest...
...rare unrestricted dining halls—even if no one in the group lives in the House. At the river, this means that Quincy and Winthrop are the only centrally located meeting spots for groups of friends, or for group meetings, and this has placed an undue strain on the dining hall staffs and students of these Houses...