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...northern Thai town of Chiang Rai? A billionaire tycoon turned politician, Thaksin had just launched a war on drugs. The campaign would be assailed by human-rights activists for claiming more than 2,000 lives in just three months in 2003. But for this single parent, tough action was just what was needed...
...when all are accepted to college." Big schools such as Tokyo University, which receives 40% of its funding from the government, are trying to goose head count by establishing more graduate schools and by adding postgraduate courses for working professionals and retirees. Smaller, underfunded colleges must take more drastic action. For example, Osaka University and Osaka University of Foreign Studies merged in October; two other Osaka schools - Kwansei Gakuin University and Seiwa College, both of which have been around for more than a century - are slated to combine next year...
...want to make a social return and a commercial return on our investment," says Participant president Ricky Strauss. The production company has backed 39 other movies, both documentaries and features, including Syriana and The Kite Runner, and has more than 20 films in development. All its movies have social-action campaigns: Participant encourages audiences to visit its website takepart.com and register to vote, contact Congress or urge divestment from Sudan. About 2.7 million people have gone to the activism section of the site, 400,000 of them to calculate their carbon emissions. After the 2005 release of Syriana, Clooney...
University President Drew G. Faust Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino called for action against climate change at a conference on the environment yesterday, saying that institutions of higher education must collaborate with cities in order to chart a sustainable future...
...With Harvard and East Tennessee State ranked 48th and 56th in the nation, respectively, a close match was anticipated. However, the Buccaneers had sunk the Crimson’s Ivy League rivals Brown 4-3 at Provindence two days previously, while Harvard’s last action was a double header against Binghampton and Boston College on Feb 15. Despite this discrepancy in game sharpness, the Crimson kept the contest alive right to the end of the action. “Overall, the energy was good,” said junior co-captain Chris Clayton. “It came...