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...train transfer, often through Hyde Park, the leafy, upscale neighborhood best known because of its proximity to the University of Chicago. In recent years, parts of the South Side have experienced the arrival of gleaming condominiums and professionals of all races. Much of the city?s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games is centered in Washington Park in the South Side. But historically, city-planning efforts have lagged here. Perhaps the most notorious were the Robert Taylor Homes, prison-like warrens of barred windows, circling police and neglected facilities that finally came down in February 2007. Most of those...
...struck back, saying of his American counterpart: "He tells a deliberate lie asserting that the Soviet Union does not observe its own moratorium on the deployment of medium-range missiles [in Europe]." When he addressed Reagan's idea of space-age defensive ABMs, Andropov became heated. "It is a bid to disarm the Soviet Union in the face of the U.S. nuclear threat," he said. The relation between offensive and defensive weapons cannot be severed, he argued. "It is time Washington stopped devising one option after another in search of the best ways of unleashing nuclear war in the hope...
...elected student representative, makes full use of his influence to recommend changes to the committee, with a particular eye toward the interests of the student population. Sundquist has a record of advocating for students in Ad Board reform—it was a major platform of his bid for the UC presidency last fall—so we hope that this continues once he begins his work with administrators, whose views are likely quite different than this. As the sole voice of student perspective, he bears a particularly heavy obligation to lobby extensively on behalf of the student population. Most...
Following his unsuccessful bid for the UC’s second-in-command, Lee assumed a different kind of political role instead: working for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign...
...with the other sage bosses of the DNC, has left Democratic voters in what is arguably the nation's most crucial swing state feeling dissed, disenfranchised and, it now seems, disinclined to back whomever the Democratic candidate is in November. And that could harm the party's White House bid as severely as any butterfly ballot or hanging chad ever...