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Following the cap set last spring on the number of honors awarded at graduation, the Faculty moved closer yesterday to reducing the number of other academic awards given to students...
...local journalist Xie Chunlin, whom he brought back to the U.S. and married in 2000. Ford briefly interned in the office of Portland Mayor Vera Katz but otherwise supported his family by selling cell phones. He became more serious about his faith, letting his beard grow, wearing a Muslim cap and studying Arabic. Friends say the man they knew as a gentle giant began distancing himself from the African-American Muslim community, choosing instead to pray at the Islamic Center of Portland, whose members are mostly Arab and North African immigrants...
Robin hovers over Harriet and her older sister like a saint and weighs on them like an anvil: a stained-glass window in their church, dedicated to him, depicts Jesus talking to "a red-haired boy in a baseball cap who bore an unmistakable resemblance to Robin." One summer, Harriet sets out to "solve" his murder. She concludes--through an arbitrary and disastrous hunch--that he was hanged by his playmate Danny Ratliff, now 20, a drug dealer from a trailer-trash family. The penalty: she will kill Danny by getting a poisonous snake to bite...
...Brussels, where a top item on the agenda is the financing of the European Union's enlargement. The Netherlands has been the most aggressive of the so-called Gang of Four, pressing alongside Germany, Sweden and the U.K. for radical reform of subsidies in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). After the Germans and the British, the Dutch are the largest net contributors to the program. The government wants to make enlargement conditional on reform of cap, an idea that is anathema to France, the biggest beneficiary of the Union's agricultural subsidies. "It's out of the question to change...
...Islam, a field of study that has seen a surge in academic interest among undergraduates across the country in the past year. A faculty member teaching this course who may be unsympathetic to those who did not preregister and may simply start the new semester with an enrollment cap and the same number of teaching fellows, with those who preregister receiving top preference...