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Yale President Richard C. Levin announced Wednesday a new round of sweeping budget cuts as part of the university's ongoing efforts to close a $150 million budget deficit...
DAPA is comprised of 30 student peer advisors who all graduated from an intense training program of 11 sessions. Besides being peer educators, DAPAs can also dish out the dollars for safe partying. However, their range of funding is not just limited to your typical Wednesday night Monopoly marathon. In fact, DAPA will provide grants to alcoholic and non-alcoholic parties alike, though it will not finance the purrchase of any alcohol. Their purpose is two-fold. On the one hand DAPA wants to ensure that ragers don’t go awry because...
After the Christmas Day incident over Detroit, the decision to interrogate Abdulmutallab not as an enemy combatant but as a civilian - he was read his Miranda rights - was made by Attorney General Eric Holder. After weeks of political sniping, the Department of Justice on Wednesday released a sharply worded letter from Holder to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defending the decisions made in Detroit, saying that they were "fully consistent" with policies and practices of the department, the FBI and the government as a whole. Taking full responsibility for the decision to hold and indict Abdulmutallab in the federal court...
...Four days after a South African newspaper broke the story that he had fathered a child - his 20th - with Sonono Khoza, 39, the daughter of the owner of one of South Africa's top soccer teams, Zuma finally came clean on Wednesday that he was in fact the baby's daddy. "The matter is now between the two of us, and culturally, between the Zuma and Khoza families," he said, adding that he had made a payment of inhlawulo, a Zulu word for the compensation (traditionally a cow and goat) that a man gives a woman's family for impregnating...
...election, when he reversed years of denial of the AIDS epidemic by his predecessor Thabo Mbeki - Mbeki even disputed that HIV caused AIDS - and set targets of a 50% cut in new HIV infections and 80% coverage of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa by 2011. In his statement on Wednesday, Zuma said it was "mischievous to argue that" by his actions "I have changed or undermined the government's stance on the HIV and AIDS campaign. I will not compromise on the campaign. Rather, we will intensify our efforts." (Read "South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign...