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Some colleges, such as Bates, Lawrence, Wake Forest and Smith, have already made the SAT and ACT optional, and could prove to be at the vanguard of a new trend if the recommendations of Fitzsimmons and his committee take hold...
...rations last about 10 days and then the Cubans are left to resolve their problems, and what that has created is an amazing culture of corruption.” Despite the tense relations between the two countries, the U.S. government has offered aid to Cuba four times in the wake of two recent hurricanes that struck the island, Gutierrez said. Cuba’s government has refused each time. “I find that the extreme of politics. I don’t think that the people who are starving confuse dignity with starvation,” Gutierrez said...
...This weekend, ANC heavyweights hastened to calm fears of instability in the wake of Mbeki's resignation. Members of cabinet had last week threatened to resign if Mbeki went, but after meeting with the ANC executive leadership over the weekend, most indicated that they would stay on, including highly respected Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. "Everything goes on as normal," his spokeswoman Thoraya Pandy told reporters...
...that matter,” Kagame said, adding that Africa needs serious investment partners. “But if people come and find you sleeping or not knowing what you want, they rip you off. They just take all the clothes you have and by the time you wake up they have helped themselves. So why don’t we simply wake up?...
Another housing crisis may be looming even as the mortgage meltdown continues and as Americans who once dreamed of home ownership see their properties foreclosed. The Housing Act of 1937, imposed in the wake of the Great Depression, and amended a number of times in the 1970s, is reaching a crossroads - and close to five million Americans who depend on subsidized public housing may soon have to figure out where and how they are going to live...