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…. More U.S. troops - 51 - died in Afghanistan in August than in any other month since the U.S.-led invasion in October 2001. Slack-lining students use a nylon webbing secured to two trees using…

… carabineers in the Diag yesterday afternoon. Slain Yale student was suffocated, medical examiner reports to police Police: Raymond Clark III 'person of interest' in killing NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A Yale…

… graduate student found stuffed in the wall of a research center had been suffocated, the medical exam- iner reported yesterday as police awaited DNA tests on evidence taken from a lab technician who worked…

… police investigating the killing. Clark played baseball at Bran- ford High School, where longtime athletic director Artie Roy remem- bered him as a quiet student who threw a mean knuckleball. "He was a…

…, CIA chief said al-Qaida remains a threat DEARBORN, Mich. - The director of the CIA beseeched Arab-American and Muslim lead- ers yesterday to join efforts to reduce the threat of terrorism in the U…

… represented one of the Central Intelligence Agency's highest-profile recruiting efforts aimed at Arab-Americans and Muslims. Panetta said it was his first speech at a Ramadan break- fast dinner…

…. Theagencythisyearannounced a five-year plan to boost fluency in Arabic and other languages the CIA deems critical to its work. Panetta aims to raise foreign lan- guage proficiency inside the CIA from less than a third to at…

… on," Panetta said. "I think the reason I felt the way I did is because I don't believe there's a basis there for any kind of additional action." He also sought to allay concerns of many in the Arab and…

… Muslim communities who say they have felt the sting of suspicion and dis- crimination since Sept. 11. About 300,000 people with roots in the Arab world live in the Detroit area. BIG HOUSE BEATS From Page…

… talked - they only nodded soundlessly in recognition. Who would have blamed me for see- ing that? I was, after all, an inter- national student who had, upon arriving to Ann Arbor, been mer- cilessly placed…

… euphoria. After requesting passengers holding Pakistani and United Arab Emir- ates passports to step aside, the officer proceeded to make us wait three hours until our names were called out in ominous tones…

… brown." Then he needlessly reprimanded Why my first months in Ann Arbor were difficult me for my flippant outlook on life as I stood bewildered and per- plexed before a scared South Asian student audience…

…. Still, it seemed the University was determined to test how much my optimistic patience would endure. Following University pro- cedure, first-year international students had to register in the final weeks…

… Michigan, eager to contribute to the international student's freshman-year obstacle course, decided to impose a blan- ket ban preventing temporary residents from acquiring driver's licenses. Limited to…

… have skewed perceptions, for me or any other international student, the other way - that I learned to make the most of my foreign expe- rience. -Emad Ansari is a senior in the School of Public Policy…

…- sity into one of the country's original research universi- ties. According to the website of the University Lowbrow Astronomers, a student orga- nization comprised of about 90 amateur astronomers, Tap…

… the mid- 1800s. CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Driver arrested, Vehicles collide, Lecture on Job networking U.S. military officials have taken to jail no injuries Arabic works workshop proposed…

… tg tgin WHAT: A subject was arrested involved in an accident, Univer- works and his influence on ticipants. for drunk driving,.University sity Police reported. There were the Arab Renaissance. WHO…

… at 12 p.m. WHERE: Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation Obama says more time in school will boost grades, test scores WASHINGTON (AP) - Students beware: The…

… students around the globe. "Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly pop- ular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably…

… because kids in other nations have more school. "Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here," Dun- can told the AP. "I want to just level the playing…

… treading of the few remaining med school and summer term students will become on Wednesday the lively playground of the imagination. Our advice? Resist harboring the cynicism of a local and let yourself…

…'m tired of men, ya'll," he said heers, "I think that a woman in rge of the most powerful nation he world is going to empower so sy women." LSA senior Meagan Mirten- m, co-president of a student up promoting…

… Arab-Jewish har- ny, Bridge the Gap, asked Fiasco erform and speak at a planned nt next spring alongside Ortho- Jewish rapper Matisyahu. I think that was actually pretty lsy to ask him to come perform h…

… Matisyahu," said Business ool junior Sasha Compere, member of Encore, a Univer- y student dance group that per- med at the event. Mirtenbaum said she only found on Sunday night that Fiasco s going to be…

… with members of the leading faculty governing body in the Regents Room of the Fleming Administration Building yesterday. Colemano State budget needs action Students report delays in getting started with…

… classes By STEPHANIE STEINBERG Daily StaffReporter LSA junior Geoffrey Baier had planned to study Arabic while abroad at American University in Cairo this semester. But because of the swine flu scare, the…

… Egyp- tian government asked the Uni- versity to cancel classes for a week - forcing Baier to pick up the language on his own. Baier is one of approximately 80 University students studying abroad in more…

… than 15 countries through the Office of Interna- tional Programs this fall. Though not everyone has had classes suspended since the HRNB virus broke out, students studying abroad have had to be more cau…

… not been informed of any direct difficulties students have experienced because of wor- ries about the HBN1 virus while studying abroad for the fall term. "The Egyptiangovernmenthas delayed the…

…. In addition to having their classes suspended, some Univer- sity of Michigan students have been infected with the H1N1 virus while studying abroad. The OIP does not know the exact number of students…

…." Coleman also said she is con- cerned about potential cuts to the Michigan Promise Scholarship. Even if there had to be some sort of a cut back to the program, students should receive at least part of their…

… scholarships, Coleman said, adding that legislators made a promise to students. "Students have these letters promising this scholarship," Cole- man said. University students with demon- strated financial need…

… will receive their scholarship payment from the University if the state discontinues the program, though students with- out financial need will not receive the scholarship if the program is canceled. "I…

… scrawl skywriting above the city's riverfront will be enough to boost the struggling district's enrollment. The $500,000 "I'm In" cam- paign to get students into school ends tomorrow. State aid to each…

… district is based on enroll- ment numbers submitted from Wednesday's fall count and a winter count last February. The district says that each student leaving Detroit Public Schools means $7,550 less in state…

… aid. Detroit dropped below 100,000 students last year and has budgeted for 83,777 this fall. As part ofthe campaign, emer- gency financial manager Robert Bobb has gone door-to-door in recent weeks…

… to shutter the jail. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt, a spokesman for the prison that holds about 223 men, said yester- day the list in Arabic, Pashto and English was posted in common areas throughout the…

… make it possible to balance the budget without tax increases. But some Democrats want more money to save high priority programs, caus- ing a divide within the party. Nearly 100,000 college students were…