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Feb. 10, 2010
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“Every day I’m going to fight for students. It’s going to be the first thing [I do], the last thing and everything in between.”
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Feb. 10, 2010
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5 years: Financial woes closing local bars Local bar Loose Change Louie’s, (which became Fubar and is now Taboo) closed on Feb. 4, 2005.
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China cracks down on texting
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People in China might reconsider next time they decide to engage in “sexting.” According to the government-owned newspaper China Daily, authorities will now be
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Only a dream for South Africa
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This Feb. 11 will mark 20 years since Nelson Mandela’s “march to freedom” out of Robben Island’s Victor Verster prison where he spent the
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International fugitive heralded Sudanese presidential nominee
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Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s longstanding field marshal, resigned as head of the army on Jan. 11 to accept his party’s presidential nomination for the upcoming
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World in brief: Feb 10, 2010
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM According to the Globe and Mail, 21 nations were present for the Feb. 1 talks on how to stifle Yemeni terrorism.
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Election uncertainty in Ukraine
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For those already suffering from “Ukraine fatigue” – weariness brought on by the former Soviet republic’s incompetency, this latest electoral headache squashes any hope
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A worldwide look at students’ unions
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It is not every day that university students consider their global peers. The bubble of a college campus has the tendency to blind us
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Elections
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1972: Elections nearly cancelled Elections were close to being cancelled after an appeal was filed relating to a number of concerns, including over-postering on
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World in brief: Feb. 3, 2010
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA Jan. 31 marked 20 years since the first McDonald’s arrived in Soviet Russia. According to Russia Today, despite fierce opposition from the
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