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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...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SAT May Someday Be Optional, Dean Says | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bitter End for South Africa's Mbeki | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By Hee kwon Seo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rwandan President Links Technology to Development | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

...power, Family was not just close to home - it was home. Then - in the wake of the late '80s Writers Guild of America strike that pushed desperate networks to learn to produce the cheap 'n easy reality fare - came 1992's The Real World. Like almost all of its emulators, from The Osbournes to the Paris Hilton-Nicole Richie vehicle The Simple Life to The Biggest Loser: Couples, The Real World explored what happened when people "stopped being polite ... and started getting real" ... but not too real. Slickly created and cast by pros, TRW placed seven 18-to-25-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Low-Income Housing: Another Crisis Looming? | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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