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Shape up or ship out. The Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) will close its doors for renovations all of next spring, keeping gym enthusiasts out from February until September. “The [MAC] will undergo a much needed, thorough renovation of its infrastructure, including replacing plumbing, renovating bathrooms, installing sprinklers, and improving accessibility,” wrote Robert Mitchell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences director of communications, in an e-mail. According to Mitchell, the renovations to the MAC in 2004 provided program spaces but did not address infrastructure. Renovations are scheduled to be finished in September 2007. Jennifer...
...available information well. When we have the foresight to know we can’t do so, responsibility compels us to ignore some information. Recruiters don’t ask for race or age or sex. Doctors don’t demand that patients undergo criminal background checks. In such situations, we recognize that more information can give us more choices and at the same time, make us poorer decision-makers. And so we decide that the best choice is to make the information flow stop...
...Tickets to the event were distributed earlier this week through a lottery system. Attendees are expected to undergo intensive security at the event tomorrow...
...Blind public interest lawyer Chen Guangcheng, meanwhile, found himself on the receiving end of a four-year, three-month sentence last week. He was charged with obstructing traffic and damaging property. Chen, who is best known for his work on behalf of women forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign, has said he will appeal the sentence, handed down by a court in his native town of Linyi. Chen has repeatedly angered local party officials in Linyi, particularly through his revelations about the forced sterilization program run in the area. Supporters...
...text message: "Chen Guangcheng has been sentenced to four years and three months' imprisonment." I first met Chen a year ago. A native of China's eastern Shandong province, the self-schooled legal activist came to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its "one-child" policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed...