Word: wakefulness
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...international event, known as Guluwalk, takes place annually in over 50 cities in the U.S., and comes in the wake of active peace negotiations that have brought relative calm to Gulu and other afflicted districts in Uganda for the first time in two decades...
...backlash has taken hold. Texas, a pioneer in privatization under the enthusiastic leadership of Governor Rick Perry, saw its legislature impose a two-year moratorium on new projects. The Pennsylvania legislature bounced Rendell's first attempt to privatize the turnpike, though now he's trying again in the wake of shifting state politics. The mother of all toll roads, the New Jersey Turnpike, is under review, but Governor Jon Corzine, a former Goldman chairman, disappointed eager bankers in June when he flatly stated, "We're not going to privatize...
...caliber recruits and respect from national pundits won’t come simply by beating upon New Havenites and suburban-dwelling Jersey Tigers. It will come from beating the likes of UCLA, UC Santa Clara, Wake Forest, and SMU, perpetual national powerhouses of the soccer scene...
...Senator Byron L. Dorgan, the commission?s chairman, said the 360-page study was "sober reading," a sign that repression was getting worse in China, despite promises of reform. He called the report a "wake-up call" to Washington decision-makers. The Chinese Embassy in Washington was called for a comment, but officials did not respond...
...higher; we demand decision through discussion, and finality through debate.”Imagine, a Dean of the College with the temerity to take a decision without properly consulting his colleagues on the UC! The arrogance and inhumanity of it alone is appalling, especially in the broad and frothy wake of the incorrigibly-unilateral Summers. This alarming trend among Harvard administrators must be nipped in the bud. The UC, being the very model of collegiality and non-competitive collaboration, would be a great improvement. In a stinging indictment issued on Monday, Michael R. Ragalie ’09, chair...