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What’s more, the University should continue a well thought-out policy of spending its hard-won Campaign loot on building up existing programs and facilities. The specific goals of the Campaign are basically twofold: raising money for student aid and faculty salaries, and renovating the dorms and other buildings. New buildings, facilities, and programs—which often pack unforeseen costs—are notably absent from the drive’s shopping lists. The money, therefore, is not being wasted on mindless expansion, but rather on strengthening the University’s scholarship on all levels...
...holiday altogether or to arrange substitute activities for disappointed lots. Aldermen and city councils all over the country debated their right to call a halt to trick-or-treating. P. T. A. task forces patrolled neighborhood stores to watch for product contaminations. Local hospitals offered to X-ray the loot. In the end, there were widely reported incidents of pin-laden chocolate and strange tasting fruit. A packet of hypodermics was found in a box of cereal in Danbury, Conn., and a Long Island man was injured when he bit into a candy bar containing a straight pin. At least...
...flattened much of the market town over the next few days. As 60,000 civilians fled into the bush, others darted into their mud huts to retrieve assault rifles and join the fighting. By its end several days later, much of Abyei was a smoldering ruin. Fighters continued to loot and torch thatched huts in rival areas. The northern army said 21 of its men had been killed. The southerners refused to give a death toll, but the bodies of several of their guerrillas lay in the streets, their boots removed...
...Wright (he always delivers) and Pete "Maggot" Roberts (convicted of selling tainted meat) have holed up there. Last month the chief suspect in Britain's biggest heist, the 2006 theft of $100 million from a security depot, was rumored to be on the island, or to have sent his loot there. (Authorities deny he's there.) With nearly 30 casinos, the tiny territory has also attracted a flourishing nightlife. "It's a beautiful place, a paradise," sighs Robb, who now builds holiday homes...
...shop owner in the oldest township, Mbare, said he could not risk opening his store in the morning. "We didn't know what was going to happen because there was tension. We were afraid to open the shop because people usually loot." In Warren Park on Monday night, an 85-seater passenger coach had been burnt by protestors, prompting a heavy police presence. Witnesses said they heard gunshots at the scene during the night but were too afraid to go out. And in Glen View 1 township, supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party and the MDC clashed after...