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...order to enter, council representatives think little of laying on their backs in the hallway of the Student Organization Center at Hilles, sliding their arm through the space between the floor and the bottom of the locked office partition, and jimmying the door handle open with a lacrosse stick that rests propped up on the other side...
...begin with, it takes some abandon to pick a topic and stick with it. There is no way to predict what you will find, but it is a reliable rule that if you put in enough time, you will find something. Paul wrote to the Hebrews that belief was “the evidence of things not seen,” and as a researcher in the bowels of Widener, I have quested after as-of-yet-unseen evidence. Call it persistence, hard-headedness, or belief—but some such quality is vital to the early stages of finding...
...Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence for the crime, held aloft a banner calling for her son's freedom. The gesture cost the then 56-year-old 14 days in detention before she, like the others, was shipped back to Zhuangtouying with a warning to stick to established procedures in the future. "We had been to the Supreme Court and were not treated with patience," explains Fu. "They said, 'Go home and wait patiently because this is a complicated case.' But we talked and agreed that we had to do something. We wasted 13 years. Did we want...
...only country that pays the costs of addressing [global warming]," he said. "China is only an example. You've got India, you've got the former Soviet countries, you've got the Europeans. Everybody is trying to give fine speeches, get a lot of credit--and then stick somebody else with the bill...
...reap the benefit of using the CUE guide to shop for classes in the future. The opportunity to see one’s grades early, however, would provide a far stronger incentive to spend a few minutes to evaluate a course. Nevertheless, the carrot must accompany the stick; CUE evaluations should be open to until a week or two after finals period. During reading and exam periods, most students would rather spend the hour or two it would take to fill out their CUEs studying. Making the evaluations available after final exams would not only alleviate this pressure; it would...