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...Ground zero for petitioners is the area where the Beijing South train station once stood, which is the location of the main Petition Office run by the State Council, China's cabinet. The urine-scented alleyways and half demolished streets are filled with knots of grimy, exhausted petitioners, most clutching a bundle of documents as though their lives depended on them...
I returned home to discover my family in a similar state of pique. My sister-in-law sat behind her laptop, sending off an e-mail petition against the film to half of Tehran, while my husband leafed through a book on the Achaemenid Empire, noting that Herodotus had estimated...
More than 400 students have signed an online petition calling on Harvard to shed its $13 million of indirect holdings in companies that do business with Sudan. The petition comes nearly two years after the University announced it would be divesting from Chinese oil firm PetroChina because of its dealings...
Scavenging the shelves of the Coop at the beginning of the year can be a wrenching experience, particularly for students on financial aid: Do you buy an expensive course pack, or do you save the money earmarked by the Financial Aid Office as “personal expenses�...
“We are waiting to get direction from the EPC about whether we should develop a mechanism to allow students to petition us to not count groups of courses that are distinct from their focus area in Social Studies,” Bernstein wrote in an e-mailed...