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...Settler activists and their supporters among religious Zionist rabbis have urged soldiers to defy orders associated with the pullout, and appear to have had some success in isolated cases. But the authorities don't expect any significant mutiny, and the army soon begins two-week training periods for special house-evacuation teams of 17 soldiers each...
Unlike today’s celebratory commencement activities, commencements of long ago included “a two-week period when people were tested orally on their knowledge of Latin and Greek” before they could graduate, O’Keefe said. O’Keefe said Harvard was unable to determine whether or not Iacoomes had completed any of those commencement requirements...
...call center, donned a headset and listened in until 1:30 a.m. on conversations between some of the company's 525 telephone "agents" and their customers in the U.S. It was a wonderfully surreal experience. The agents-all college graduates, mostly in their early 20s-had undergone a two-week "accent neutralization" program designed by a speech pathologist whose techniques were originally developed to help stroke victims. The results were startling, with Filipinos spouting cheery Americanisms like "Alrightee," "You have a wonderful day," and "How y'all doing today?" Most spoke with an uncanny approximation of an Indiana accent...
...Princeton group, called Filibuster for Democracy, started its two-week, nonstop filibuster on April 26, reading everything from political speeches and poems to phone books and the digits of Pi. They stood in front of the Frist Campus Center, so named after the Senator's family pledged $25 million to his alma mater. As word of the effort spread, hundreds of students joined in-despite looming exams-and a number of parallel protests started up at other schools, including Harvard, Howard, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale...
Wearing white chasubles, a grand assemblage of Roman Catholic bishops will file through St. Peter's Square and into the basilica next Sunday to con-celebrate a Mass with Pope John Paul II. The stately ritual will mark the beginning of a two-week world synod of bishops, summoned by the Pope to commemorate and evaluate the results of the Second Vatican Council, which concluded 20 years...