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...upperclassmen. This makes the Prefect Program all the more valuable, but its current budget—around $1 per student—is insufficient for the program to function optimally. Therefore, we welcome the University Hall’s announcement that the program’s budget will swell five-fold this year, and we hope that this raise portends both continued strong funding of the Prefect Program and an increased commitment to using upperclassmen as advisors to first-years...
...candidate commitments to protect civilian lives: "That is what we'd most like, and that was our goal in getting this out." In Iraq, meanwhile, it was business at usual: at least seven people died in a Baghdad car-bomb blast on Saturday, and the hostage ranks continued to swell...
...anyway, I had a swell time tonight,” Pring-Wilson said in the message to his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Hansen. “I hope you guys made it home okay...
...swell story line, but it won't wash. Against a backdrop of great events, even a mediocrity can seem great for a while. After Sept. 11, there was certainly a great flurry of activity. War on terrorism was declared. An actual war was started in Iraq and still goes on. A Department of Homeland Security was founded. Various American freedoms have been suspended. More than $100 billion has been spent. At the rate things are going, the toll of American lives lost responding to 9/11 may exceed the toll of 9/11 itself. The toll of innocent foreigners is higher already...
...deck and load up their kits: life jackets, 9-mm Glock semi-automatics, telescopic batons, capsicum spray, handcuffs, assorted tools, water supply, radio. The sailors climb aboard an outboard-powered tender which is lowered into the water. Coxswain Brad Walker thumps the boat into a slight swell on a 20-knot south-easterly, zooming toward the target under a blazing midday...