When Rashed Chowdhury was offered a position at University of Hawai‘i, he made the decision to move his family 5,000 miles away, trading New York's cold weather for Hawai‘i's perpetual sunshine.
Next Tuesday, Vampire Weekend will be stopping by Pipeline Café as they make their way to sold out shows in Australia and the United Kingdom. The band has enjoyed unprecedented success, after receiving attention from the Indie music blog Stereogum.
Condoleeza Rice is fuming. She, along with senior American diplomats, had hoped that this weekend's multilateral meeting with Iranian negotiators would produce an agreement on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, under which Iran would suspend uranium enrichment in exchange for economic concessions from the European Union. What did she get? Bupkus.
Three former Rainbow Wahine volleyball standouts will represent team USA in the 2008 Olympic games beginning in August, pending on official confirmation by the United States Olympic Committee. Robyn Ah Mow-Santos (1993-96), Heather Bown (1998-99), and Kim Willoughby (2000-03) were among 12 players chosen by U.S. Women's National Indoor Volleyball Head Coach, 'Jenny' Lang Ping.
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