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...council can only react to student grievances through frequent communication, which can identify complaints from repeated fire alarms to erratic shuttle bus service. Another way for the council to affect both current and future student life is to dispense with procedural concerns, which last year consumed a sizable chunk of meetings and produced a 300-page opus on bylaws. It is also imperative that the government remove clauses in its constitution and bylaws which provide for closed meetings "under extraordinary circumstances," items which indicate the tendency toward separation from the student body...
...completely in the face of the French military buildup. Aware of the French reluctance to launch an assault, Gaddafi seemed to be hoping that he could secure through negotiations at least part of what he had sought to achieve through force of arms, namely the annexation of a chunk of northern Chad...
...some new jobs by providing tax incentives to high-tech businesses, but at a cost of higher government deficits and more taxes for wage earners. The government's share of potential offshore-oil revenues, which is expected to be between 8% and 16%, would wipe out a significant chunk of Ireland's $1.1 billion budget deficit. Until recently, Ireland's exploration for oil has concentrated on Porcupine Basin, a storm-whipped area of the Atlantic 130 miles west of Galway Bay. The poor drilling conditions and evidence of only small deposits in that basin prompted a shift...
With 5300 undergraduates, Brown is one of the smallest schools in the Ivy League, but the school nonetheless attracted a hefty chunk of this year's Ivy applicant pool and a corresponding amount of media attention when it fielded an impressive 13,250 prospective members for the class...
...sedate hotel dining room in Helsinki, she gives a writer a big, rowdy kiss, and orders not vodka but tea and a huge chunk of chocolate cake. She talks of a happy, privileged childhood in Tomaszow Lubelski, a town of some 20,000 people about 200 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father ran a construction business until he became ill some years ago. She was a track star as a child; at eleven she had the best time in Poland in the 80-meter sprint. She began to be interested in the stage, but theater simply did not exist...