Word: fortnight
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Curious freshmen travelled from table to table in a packed Annenberg Hall picking up pamphlets and asking questions at last night’s kick-off of the Advising Fortnight, a two-week-long event hosted by the Advising Programs Office to help undergraduates choose their concentration...
...Rubens, Da Vinci and Van Gogh copies. Painting quietly in an alleyway, one young artist seemed to find us rather than vice versa. As Tamara translated, he cast an appreciative eye over a printout of De Chirico's Enigma, and promised a 2-sq.-ft. canvas reproduction, in a fortnight...
Aquino spent a good part of the week cleaning up the mess left after the firing of another man who had underestimated her, former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. Having dismissed Enrile a fortnight ago after accusations that he was plotting against her, she was now slowly revamping her Cabinet at the urging of her armed forces Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos and other military leaders. Aquino had earlier announced the removal of Natural Resources Minister Ernesto Maceda and Public Works Minister Rogaciano Mercado, whose ministries had been accused of corruption. Last week she added Minister of Local Government...
...Roger Federer, who's so far ahead of the rest in the ATP points race that in February he's certain to break Jimmy Connors' record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 (160). Here are the 10 key questions - and our best answers ? about the Open fortnight, beginning...
...friends are playing poker for money, a pastime that many would consider at least inappropriate for kids and that is outright illegal in some states. It doesn't matter that the teenagers are playing a $5 buy-in poker game so excruciatingly slow that it would take a fortnight to run through Ryan's allowance. Gambling is gambling, and with today's endless hand wringing about kids and distractions, it is a scourge, a gateway to a lifetime of misbehavior and penury...