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...know that you Senior Gift people have a tough (and indeed frustrating) job convincing people like me to give you money. These tactics probably seemed like a good way to get your message across yet another time. But must you really resort to this level of condescension? Do you think that rude language and silly commands actually make it more likely that I'll keep reading, much less give you my money...
Luna died smiling. The bottle-nosed dolphin was captured last December off the southwest coast of Baja California. For two hours, she traveled in a coffin-like trailer with virtually no water. When she arrived at her destination, an aquarium at La Concha Beach Resort in La Paz, Mexico, she was carried in a makeshift hammock and deposited on a sandy beach. She tried to bite her handlers, but her protest went unheeded. She was forced to frolic and swim with tourists in a pen. After five weeks, she died--from stomach inflammation and ulcers caused by stress, according...
...delay. Since weather accounts for a whopping 65 per cent of all delays (and in 2000, one in four flights was delayed), a Command Center conference call can make the difference between you over-nighting on a cot in Chicago or alternatively, enjoying your summer vacation in that exclusive resort you booked months...
Conventional wisdom on campus dismisses University Health Services (UHS) as a last resort for helping an inebriated friend and not much else. Yet at least on paper, UHS is near the top; the service recently received a nearly perfect score from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). How can these be reconciled...
Rudenstine emphasized the openness of the community and his own office, adding that the other side of his openness is students' responsibility not to abuse trust and resort to coercive measures when they are unable to convince people of their causes...