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...outcome was foreseeable from the beginning. While the UC’s dramatic standoff with the administration made for some great political theater, it is hard to imagine what the UC believed it was going to accomplish given that it was going up against an opponent that had the weight of money, power, and federal and state law on its side. If the UC really wanted to secure the future of a non-alcoholic party fund, surely less confrontational measures could have been used—it shouldn’t take a month to get the College...
...Musharraf to reverse his decision of emergency rule, there have to be some sort of huge protests...The name Harvard itself has such weight in Pakistan,” Khurram said...
...students of the Class of 2007 knew they’d be leaving Harvard Yard for potentially the last time on Commencement Day, June 7, carrying a diploma, but the added weight of the world probably took at least a few of them by surprise. Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and one time member of the Class of 1977, delivered quite a challenge with his Commencement speech...
...face, but stresses that it is not an impossible one. “You don’t want to exempt people from making moral choices, because the market shouldn’t determine how you live your life, but you can’t put all of the weight on individual choices,” he says. “It’s important that we understand the way in which the structure of our society has made these choices harder and harder.” There are lines to be drawn below which sacrifice is unacceptable...
...would allow on board for free. "Virgin Atlantic continues to be the airline for sports enthusiasts, unlike others who are doing everything they can to prevent the gold medalists of the future transporting their equipment," it said in a statement. As long as the equipment complies with size and weight allowances, Virgin Atlantic travelers can check their diving equipment, golf equipment, fishing equipment, hang gliders, skis, surfboards, windsurfing boards, booms and sails, bicycles, paragliders, canoes and kayaks all free of charge. One roundhouse cutback deserves another...