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...could be handled within the House and would not require the Board. Hammonds has also committed to making the sequence of events for cases more clear, whether through flow charts or through revised and simplified guides. Across the College, there is a commitment to assuring that students and faculty understand the process and the rationale for the Board...
...Some Luddites who responded to the 1984 questionnaire, however, refused to acknowledge the march of technology. At the end of the survey, one student proclaimed, “Though I see and understand the advantages of computers and word processors, etc., I DO NOT feel that the technological progress they represent is good. I think it is alienating and it disturbs me greatly. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere...
...rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government to win an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority. The struggle claimed more than 70,000 lives--including, on May 18, Prabhakaran's. The government says he was killed, along with 17 of his trusted lieutenants, while fleeing an army ambush...
...quality of building construction and viability of roads and other infrastructure. Within minutes of the L'Aquila quake, Plinius had reached what turned out to be a very accurate estimate of the location and severity of damage, which helped guide the Civil Protection authorities' response. "You have to understand the nature of the disaster as quickly as possible," says Zuccaro. "In Naples, one risk is that roads get blocked off, making parts of the city inaccessible for rescue workers. That can transform a disaster into a maxi-disaster...
...makeshift” Valentine’s Day date in late February, Gottlieb and Smith were walking along a pier near the Boston aquarium when she felt him carving a message on her back with his finger, writing slowly and carefully so she could understand. The letters spelled out “M-A-R-R-Y M-E.” “When I turned around, he had the ring out,” Gottlieb said. Gottlieb met Smith during their sophomore year of high school in Rochester, N.Y., but Gottlieb says “you can?...