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...finals approach, the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) has been actively soliciting tutors through e-mail and phone calls—so much so that some students say the number of requests they have received indicates a shortage of tutors. “There’s always a dearth of tutors,” said Sarah M. G. Otner ’06, who has tutored in psychology and statistics. John H. Jernigan ’06, another tutor, said he has had many conversations about a tutor shortage with BSC staff during weekly meetings for the Award Peer...
...Fund website, which offers a list of contributors. But the site does list an anonymous donor who contributed $15 million in 2002 to create 10 professorships and 10 Innovation Funds at the DEAS. It’s not certain that Ballmer is that specific donor. Ballmer did not return phone calls or an e-mail seeking comment yesterday. Another note is directed toward Waters, thanking him for his generosity. Waters, like Ballmer, is absent from the donor list on the Challenge Fund website. The list does, however, refer to an anonymous donor from the Class of 1968 who established...
...Symptoms: You find yourself hurling a non-functional telephone at a hotel concierge because all you want to do is make one flipping phone call home...
...that Danny’s beloved White Sox have finally managed to end their 88-year World Series drought, it seems anything is possible—like getting Skip Gates’ cell phone digits! Danny will look to blow up other campus celebrities’ mobiles as one of the new FM associates. Next on the list: Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Theda Skocpol, and Marjorie Garber...
...What happened next in Dongzhou, though, was far from an ordinary protest. Just after 7 p.m., say two locals reached by TIME by phone, riot police opened fire on the villagers, who responded by throwing homemade explosives normally used by local fishermen to stun fish. By the time the smoke had cleared several hours later, Lin and at least five others were dead, according to the two eyewitnesses, making the Dongzhou riot one of the deadliest incidents in recent years. "We never imagined that they would shoot people," says a Dongzhou housewife surnamed Huang, whose father was injured...