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Chany says these students ask for "reconsideration" from the college that offered the lesser amount of aid and that the college will usually match the other school's offer. The result is that students get a better deal, but colleges spend more on financial...
...government, however, is overwhelmed just trying to deliver food and medicine to stave off death and disease; it also has to worry about reports of another cyclone building up in the Bay of Bengal. Reconstruction efforts are a lesser priority, a fact that has upset Ujantia's elders. "If we don't plant soon," says Abdur Rahman, a small landowner, "we will have no crop next season. There will be only starvation." The screams of the babies at dawn are destined to grow louder...
Among the painters of this myth were George Catlin, friend of the explorer William Clark and indefatigable painter of native tribes; George Caleb Bingham, that vigorous orderer of American genre scenes; the landscapists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran; and a host of lesser figures, who also played their part in the creation of a heroic imagery of national conquest. And here the difficulty rises, for Americans still wish to believe in the "historical" truth of their icons, which is what such pictures have become...
...course, there are limits to fair punishment for relatively mild violations of University rules. The students should not be expelled for a sit-in. But lesser penalties including probation and suspension may be justified. In the end, we suspect that such penalties and the press coverage that would follow can only advance the worthy cause of diversity at the Law School...
However, we find it hard to believe that in almost four months of matches, games and scrimmages you could not mention the progress of the lesser sports more than you did. For example, in our own case, we counted a total of three articles and two pictures alloted to men's volleyball during the course of our season. These brief appearances in The Crimson all occurred before we had completed the first third of our season, which began in early January and finished this past weekend. It seems to us that rugby, swimming and golf find themselves in similar circumstances...