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...Michael D. Smith announced in November that he will shrink the number of professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ending a decade-long expansion in order to offset the school’s $110 million deficit. The news was followed by faculty retirement plans at FAS as well as four of the University's graduate schools...
...resulting from Mexico's deflated economy. Given its enormous reliance on the U.S. market - and on remittances from Mexican workers there, which have declined sharply this year - the global recession has hit Mexico especially hard. Its GDP, in fact, will contract more than 5% in 2009, exacerbating unemployment as well as Mexico's chronic poverty. A report this year by the Colegio de Mexico, one of the country's top universities, warned, "A national social explosion is knocking at the door." Said top Roman Catholic Bishop Gustavo Rodriguez, "We cannot separate the economic crisis from the violence and criminal crisis...
...from California who served in the military during the Vietnam War - but only after ignoring several draft letters and being faced with imprisonment. Several weeks before every recruiter visit, Bigelow holds "anti-recruiting" sessions with juniors and seniors. He distributes materials on battlefield fatalities and post-traumatic stress, as well as an article by Haglelgam arguing that military service is "completely out of place" for residents of this "serene and peaceful" nation. "These kids just want to get off the rock," says Bigelow. "And I don't like the recruiters coming in and harvesting the best kids just because they...
Still, Berlusconi understands the heart of politics as much as its trimmings: the lingering images of his bloodied face might very well provide the kind of sympathy-vote reinforcement to his popularity that no legislative success - or dashing good looks - could match. A poll taken last week by the Milan daily Corriere della Sera shows Berlusconi's favorable ratings had swelled to 56% from 49% in November, with some 17% of the center-left electorate now saying they have a positive opinion of the center-right prime minister. The same survey, however, showed a disturbingly high - more than 20% - number...
...paradoxical shifts in opinions provide a fitting close to what has been the most tumultuous year of the prime minister's political career. There were the public gaffes: calling President Obama "well-tanned"; getting scolded by the Queen after raising his voice at a London photo op; making German Chancellor Angela Merkel wait on the red carpet while he spoke on his cell phone. Then there was his private life: his wife of 20 years filing for divorce; her accusations that he "frequents underage females"; a Bari prostitute revealing details of several encounters at his Rome residence.(Read "Hoq Silvio...