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...said Adriana L. Benedict ’09, HHRA’s vice president of local advocacy. The classes, to be held regularly over the semester, represent a new effort to galvanize students to involve themselves in humanitarian causes in different regions of the world. Activists say their main task is to urge international policy makers to acknowledge the crisis in Uganda. “Society triages situations, and this crisis has been going on for so long that it got put on the back burner,” said HCCUP President Robert J. Ross...
...legislation that would attempt to “correct” the trade balance between China and the United States. Her concern that taxing Chinese imports will hurt China’s economy and create a political precedent for protectionism in the world is probably accurate. However, the main reason we should not be worried about the undervalued yuan is that the major consequence– “allowing Chinese businesses to produce products... whose prices are lower than the prices of their American-made counterparts,” is in fact beneficial for the United States. Cheap imports...
...another ensemble member. “There’s a moment in the play at the very end where they say, ‘Let me not outlive my capacity to love. Let me die still loving and thus, never die.’ I think the main idea of the play is that there are all these different ways that we can love and that they’re each beautiful and each entirely different.” REDEMPTIVE NUDITY The show has been advertised around campus with witty one-liners such...
...before.” The design also acknowledges students’ desire for a social gathering place: the entry area will be transformed into a lounge with carpeting and furniture. The construction project is the second phase of a major renovation of the MAC, the University’s main recreational facility built in 1930. The first phase, in 2004, addressed primarily “programmatic” issues, Gibson said. In that renovation, the MAC added a glassed-in balcony, a spinning room, and doubled the size of the weight room, but no major structural work was undertaken. Only...
...daily traffic snarls caused by blocking off some of the city's main arteries so that the 2,000-plus delegates' black limousines can shuttle back and forth from their hotels to the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square is enough to test anyone's sense of humor. But when the meeting's fourth day dawned to blue skies and sunshine, one Beijinger, who didn't want his name used for obvious reasons, joked that the absence of the dirty gray cloud of polluted mist that typically hangs over the city must have been organized for the meeting...