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While running from Mather House to CGIS to turn in her final thesis last Thursday, Christina Kozak ’08 discovered that she had not printed out the two complete sets required by the Government department. “I turned to the last page of my second copy and realized that the printer had run out of paper and my bibliography wasn’t there,” she said. Kozak ran back to Mather to print the final page before sprinting across campus to CGIS. “I ran. Very quickly...
...happy with getting into Mather?” In fact, Mather HoCo Co-Chair Lily G. Bellow ’09 agreed that letters of welcome from her House might initially be met with tears. But she said the presence of enthusiastic representatives at freshmen’s doors Thursday morning would counter any negative preconceptions. “I think Mather’s best day is Housing Day,” she said. “It might work in our favor to have freshmen see us as soon as they open their letters...
...Persian New Year, which is observed with Islamic elaboration in Iran and all the "stan" countries, as well as by Zoroastrians and Baha'is. Eid Milad an Nabi, the Birth of the Prophet, which is celebrated by some but not all Sunni Muslims and, though officially beginning on Thursday, is often marked on Friday. Small Holi, Hindu, an Indian festival of bonfires, to be followed on Saturday by Holi, a kind of Mardi Gras. Magha Puja, a celebration of the Buddha's first group of followers, marked primarily in Thailand...
...population is going to be celebrating something," says Raymond Clothey, Professor Emeritus of Religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. "My goodness," says Delton Krueger, owner of www.interfaithcalendar.org, who follows "14 major religions and six others." He counts 20 holidays altogether (including some religious double-dips, like Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) between the 20th (which is also quite crowded) and the 21st. He marvels: "There is no other time in 2008 when there is this kind of concentration...
...uprising, its spread, is wider than 1959," Tenzin Tsundue, a charismatic Tibetan writer-activist, told TIME from Indian police detention in Jwalamukhi. "We've achieved in three days what we were hoping to achieve in three months." Tsundue had been among the first batch of 101 marchers held on Thursday by Indian authorities. Organizers were also hoping the protests within Tibet and China would gather steam. "Much as we are sad for our brothers and sisters in Tibet, we want the protests to continue," said B. Tsering, president of the Tibetan Women's Association. But since the passing...