Ambassador: Peru ripe for free trade
By LINDSEY ROBINSON | Jan. 7, 2008Latin America is the newest frontier for free trade agreements, U.S. Ambassador to Peru Mike McKinley told UF faculty and students in a public meeting Monday.
Latin America is the newest frontier for free trade agreements, U.S. Ambassador to Peru Mike McKinley told UF faculty and students in a public meeting Monday.
It is completely irresponsible for the UF Board of Trustees to approve nearly ,300,000 in performance bonuses for President Bernie Machen while the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences remains in crippling debt.
At a forum Monday night, a group made up of local black leaders and business owners questioned Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan and city commissioners on how effectively they have been serving the black community.
Editor's Note:UF plans to test its text-messaging emergency notification system on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
UF heads to Alabama tonight to kick off its Southeastern Conference schedule, but the biggest battle of the rest of the season isn't going to be with the opponents the Gators face.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any lower than suing single moms for thousands of dollars, the Recording Industry Association of America has taken its fight one step further.
A Gainesville man who reported that he had been kidnapped from a Shands at UF parking garage Thursday night admitted Monday that the incident never occurred.
At last, another one of the Bush administration's foreign policy blunders has been placed under scrutiny: the protection of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at all costs. I'm willing to bet that most Americans hadn't even heard Benazir Bhutto's name until she was assassinated, let alone had known that she was Pakistan's prime minister under a power-sharing agreement with Musharraf that the Bush administration orchestrated.
Grab a Snickers, Urban Meyer.
Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham and the Board of Governors, the State University System?s highest governing body, now face a stumbling block in their fight for tuition-setting power.
Pramod Khargonekar, the six-year dean of UF?s College of Engineering, announced his resignation Dec. 4.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who lose their cell phones and those who do not.
In 2012, UF President Bernie Machen?s salary will be bumped up to a cool million.
John Wright, who served as the interim dean of the UF College of Journalism and Communications for more than a year, was named the college?s permanent dean last month.
The victories of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., in Friday?s Iowa caucuses have earned support from some UF student political organizations on campus.
A Shands employee was kidnapped from a UF parking garage Thursday night, placed in the trunk of a car and dropped off uninjured at a local Wal-Mart later that night, according to a University Police Department news release.
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