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...June 19] was outstanding. Visitors in the past might have felt India's problems were overwhelming, but there is hope for the masses of the subcontinent. It goes to show what can be accomplished by millions of people with a work ethic, an appreciation for education, a culture of thrift and family, and a recognition of the value of being able to speak English well in the global marketplace. Paul H. Gore Oakland, Oregon...
...last thing our country needs is another issue to divide us, to pit red against blue, conservative vs. progressive, and yet there it is, stacked up on every dresser: the penny. It's a symbol of thrift and Americana that also happens to be an incredible annoyance; 58% of Americans stash pennies instead of spending them like real money. And while the debate over the penny's demise has raged for decades on the fringes of society (thanks to an Arizona Congressman, a part-time lobbying group and a biophysics grad student), recent events have caused this fight to spill...
...India was outstanding. Visitors in the past might have felt India's problems were overwhelming, but there is hope for the masses of the subcontinent. It goes to show what can be accomplished by millions of people with a work ethic, an appreciation for education, a culture of thrift and family, and a recognition of the value of being able to speak English well in the global marketplace. PAUL H. GORE Oakland...
...plays of Aphra Behn.Type 3: The “You went to the University of Wisconsin, so you clearly hate me” TF.These TFs are the most proudly stylish of the bunch. They are usually outfitted in “very unique” items from thrift stores or, more commonly, in Express pants.In general, these TFs are better at traveling to third-world countries, better at smoking cigars and much quicker to point out your particular flaws than you are. Through all this effort, however, they stalwartly wear uncompromising, square-toed shoes and consistently try to get their...
...Centralized Resource Efficiency Optimization—will shop reading lists around to different printers and find the best deal possible for students, including the flexibility of reading coursepacks online, eliminating printing costs altogether. We certainly do not want to compromise the content of a course in the name of thrift, but to the extent that we can do something, it is irresponsible to neglect the practical burden that high prices impose on students. The College, and professors, ought to heed the UC’s call and work to reduce the costs of coursepacks. These simple measures will have...