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...students without January exams do not necessarily get off scot-free. Lengthy term papers are often the price of having no finals, as Geoff S. Johnston ’07 learned. Johnston said that despite having no final exams, his five papers—all due during a three-day period and totalling between 75 and 90 pages together—led to “by far my most stressful final period.” “I think it’s important to have a mixture of final exams and papers,” said Johnston...
...ready to pay more for oranges and other fresh produce, as California growers survey the damage caused by a cold snap that destroyed as much as three-quarters of the state's citrus and hit nearly every other winter crop, from avocados to strawberries. The total cost to farmers could surpass the $700 million lost during a three-day freeze in December 1998, state agriculture secretary A.G. Kawamura said on Monday, the day before Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked for federal disaster relief from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration...
...join our forces." Both are daunting tasks. Some warlords have already dismissed the new government as a paper authority that will cease to have muscle - and therefore a point - once Ethiopia withdraws its forces. And on Tuesday, Gedi's attempt to persuade Somalis to disarm voluntarily in a three-day weapons amnesty appeared stillborn, when not a single weapon was handed in at collection points around Mogadishu. By evening, Aidid indicated the government realized it had been over-ambitious, saying it had called an emergency meeting Wednesday to hammer out a new disarmament plan and adding that the government would...
...Year. On Dec. 31, western New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties, concerts and fireworks. A few weeks later the country stages massive celebrations in honor of Chinese New Year. Finally, on April 13 Thailand celebrates the first day of the traditional Thai calendar with Songkran, a three-day festival marked by parades, feasts and a water-throwing free-for-all in which people roam the streets with squirt guns, bowls of water and garden hoses, drenching passersby--and themselves--in the process. The water represents purification, but it also brings the revelers welcome relief: April is the hottest...
...format of the three-day invitational parallels that of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championships, which will take place on Feb. 22-24. The competition this weekend, although unimportant in league standings, allowed Crimson swimmers to measure up with swimmers from across the nation and prepare for Easterns in a similarly-formatted meet. The Crimson will not compete again until Jan. 5, when it travels to Rutgers for a dual meet...