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...Getting to know students was a really signal improvement for what you might call the pedagogical way of life,” he said...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mixed Views for English Plan | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...about 5 a.m. on April 12, an American convoy passing through Senjaray on the Ring Road slowed on the curve in front of Dog Company's outpost. A passenger bus came up behind the convoy, traveling at a rate of speed the Americans deemed suspicious. The convoy tried to signal the bus to stop; the soldiers apparently used hand signals and pen flares, but fired no warning shots according to the McChrystal protocol. But the bus didn't stop and the Americans opened fire; five civilians were killed and 18 wounded. Outraged Afghans poured into the streets in Kandahar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Tale of Soldiers and a School | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...eliminated candidate first transfer their first-preference vote to their second-ranked candidate. This process goes on until one candidate wins over 50 percent of the first-preference vote. The system represents voter preferences more accurately than our current framework, because it allows voters for third-party candidates to signal accurately their policy preferences in the event that their candidate is not victorious...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Making the Right Choices | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...past seventy years, the station has undergone one more name change, as well as a few shifts in location, including a move from Memorial Hall to the basement of Pennypacker Hall in 1994. A year later, it repositioned its broadcast signal from the Holyoke Center to the top of One Financial Center in downtown Boston...

Author: By Zachary N. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WHRB's 70th Celebrates Musical Community | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...ElBaradei has yet to signal whether he'll allow the Islamists to join his coalition. But some say the support of the Brotherhood as a bloc would give any reform movement the spine it needs to stand up to a regime willing to get tough. Such an alliance would also greatly expand the grass-roots organizational reach of ElBaradei's coalition, which has thus far been unable to set up regional campaign offices or raise funds in a closely controlled political system. "The national coalition doesn't need Tagamma or the Nasserists," says Joshua Stacher, an Egypt expert at Kent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's Opposition: Will the Islamists Join ElBaradei? | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

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