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...grad school applications. “I’m using this weekend to catch up on some work,” she said. “I just want to get into grad school.” Research came first for Voranaddha Vacharathit ’10, who spent the holiday in a lab culturing cells. Others said cost and travel time led them to stay put for the holiday. Yuliya S. Nikolova ’09, who is from Bulgaria, said plane tickets were too expensive—and flights too lengthy at 12 to 13 hours each...
Hallion’s last three-pointer—she finished a perfect 3-for-3 beyond the arc—pushed the lead to 12 at 52-40, and the Pride spent the rest of the night clamoring to trim its deficit...
...direction As a Diplomat, Rudd spent eight years in Beijing; he makes much of his ability to speak Mandarin. Perhaps coincidentally, his approach to Labor doctrine resembled an Australian version of Deng Xiaoping Theory. Whether an ideology is "surnamed capitalist or surnamed socialist" is immaterial, the late Chinese leader declared. Socialism is "whatever increases the comprehensive strength of the nation...
Pundits have spent much of the past year debating what the trend to Labor said about Australia. In a country where voting is compulsory, elections turn on a dozen or so marginal seats, where small shifts in voter sentiment can make or break governments. There was reason to think swinging voters would applaud Howard: Australia is in its 16th successive year of economic growth, and unemployment and interest rates are the lowest since the '70s. "This is the first defeat of a government in decades where there was no evident anger or public rage," said former Liberal Senator Michael Baume...
Australia under Labor will remain a "rock solid" friend of the U.S., Rudd has said, but reserve the right to act "independently." Rudd, who spent eight years as a diplomat in Beijing, has criticized China's human-rights record but appears more sympathetic to the People's Republic than Howard. Rudd rejected the Howard government support of a potential alliance between the U.S., Australia, Japan and India, saying China would feel encircled...