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...President Pusey, Dean Bundy occupied himself with the future. Knowingly, he predicted a tuition rise last October. Lo and behold, in January the prediction came true, as tuition rose to $1000 for next year. We congratulated Dean Bundy for his oracular powers, and suggested that perhaps tuition should have risen even higher—simultaneously, of course, with scholarship aid. We approved the extension of the Lamont Library hours to midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary?...
...president always seeks to blame and humiliate others,” Skocpol said at a Faculty meeting, exacerbating the contretemps last winter. Later softening her words, Skocpol was appointed dean of GSAS by Kirby last spring.Since the “unnecessary rejection” in 1980, Skocpol has risen to the top of the ivory tower. Before serving as dean of GSAS, she was elected president of the 14,000-member American Political Science Association. She has authored eight books since the publication of “States and Social Revolutions” and advised President Bill Clinton while...
...behind both crews in fourth. “It depends from year to year,” Bates said. “[The Tigers] in the past have been very close to us, and we’ve traded races with them. “This year, Georgetown has risen up as a powerful crew, and we’ve had some tight races with them as well, ending with a loss to them at the IRAs.” “Actually, IRAs was kind of a shocker for us because we’d always beatenGeorgetown...
...mother of two, SaBreena is close to her parents, but as her story shows, adopting a teen can pose all kinds of challenges for the parents and the child. Over the past few years, however, the number of 12- to 18-year-olds adopted out of foster care has risen sharply, from 6,000 in 2000 to 10,000 in 2004. That's thanks, in part, to financial incentives and intensive campaigns to persuade people to take in some of society's most unwanted children. Monthly foster-care subsidies, which used to stop after a child was adopted, now continue...
...myth? Revisionist historians have recently accused the imperial civil servants of sins ranging from selfishness to incompetence in dealing with famines. Now, British historian David Gilmour has risen to the defense of the ICS with his new book, The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. Gilmour has already written monumental biographies of two of the most controversial figures of the Raj?the writer Rudyard Kipling and the viceroy Lord Curzon. His latest work aims to rebut the revisionist attacks and provide a more flattering group portrait of the men who ruled...