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...country whose natural and human resources have been exploited for centuries, Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) showed great spirit by beating a superpower 2-1 at Nuremberg in the 2006 football World Cup. The free education established by Nkrumah benefited Ghanaians and served as a model for all of Africa. Isn't it ironic that the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence and the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade fall in the same year? Time could have done Ghana's tourism industry a great favor by including photographs of some of the castles, beautiful sandy beaches...
...gain insight into advising from their own mentors. “We really care about [undergraduate] advising as graduate students,” Winthrop House Residential Tutor Jamie L. Jones ’00 said before the ceremony. “When we have a role model ourselves for what a good adviser looks like, that makes our job easier too,” she said. While the students and professors in attendance did not discuss undergraduate advising, one student said that graduate students—who are often advisors for undergraduates—can gain insight into advising from...
...official Japanese Meteorological Agency, which bases its forecasts on a databank of more than three decades of climate statistics, confidently predicted that the model tree in Tokyo - located in the Yasukuni Shrine, the Shinto place of worship better known for the controversy over its enshrinement of Japan's war dead - would begin to blossom on March 18. But that forecast had to be hastily revised last week, when officials discovered that a computer glitch had thrown off the prediction. As programming errors go, this was just slightly less catastrophic than the NASA mistake that caused the $125 million Mars Climate...
According to Zeckhauser, the game of bridge is a good model for everything from economics to dating...
...said Chia N. Mustafa ’09. “So I was kind of pissed off—news should be accessible to everyone.” In the year and a half since TimesSelect was first introduced, the newspaper has continued to adapt to a business model that is increasingly reliant upon the Internet. Among Times readers on campus, the paper’s recent decision to stop charging students has been well received. “I think it’s awesome,” said Aimee C. Dobrowski...