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Appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer, Berman has the power to shape policy at a time when tightening budgets weigh increasingly on the minds of top University administrators...
...birds are Magellanic penguins, which weigh about 7 lbs., stand about 18 in. and reach a top swimming speed of 15 m.p.h. In the wild, they would make migrations of 2,000 miles along the coast of South America. That equals 26,400 laps around the zoo's pool, and the birds appear to be trying to swim every one of them...
...have been in jail for most of your daughter's life. How do you weigh responsibilities to your country against those to your family? If you have a conscience and you've made a decision to defy an authoritarian regime-to resist it thoroughly-then you have no choice but to put your personal life second. If I'd thought about my family, my wife, my daughter, I'd definitely have abandoned my mission. But if everyone with a family abandons this kind of mission, then who is left...
...teens' confusion is easy to understand. In addition to their shameless lollipop flavoring, bidis are smaller and weigh about two-thirds less than conventional cigarettes, so they may appear to be less substantial and therefore less noxious. But the dark Indian tobacco they contain has as much as three times the nicotine concentration of American grown. The leaf wrapping, which comes from the tendu plant, doesn't help either. Unlike the paper on a conventional cigarette, the tendu leaf is nonporous, so it prevents outside air from mixing with the inhaled smoke and diluting...
Diversity in universities is a compelling state interest, as Powell wrote in Bakke, and so universities ought to be able to weigh race in their admissions decisions. But true diversity cannot be achieved by considering race alone. “The diversity that furthers a compelling state interest encompasses a far broader array of qualifications and characteristics, of which racial or ethnic origin is but a single, though important, element,” Powell wrote. To attain a meaningful sense of diversity, universities must ensure that they take socioeconomic, geographic and personal factors into account, in addition to race...