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...light of this, Nathans says the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) is unwilling to adopt 24-hour UKA, which she described as a proposal that “seems more likely to compromise the safety of more than 1600 students, than to enhance...
...approached a vote last night, more than three hours into its weekly meeting, the opposition failed in a motion to divide the measure into two votes, one for the establishment of a committee and another for the drafting, “if necessary,” of legislation to adopt democratic mayoral elections...
Agreement had been reached, though, by postponing resolution of contentious issues such as the fate of the militias, the extent of federalism linking Iraq's three main groups into a single nation and the role of Islam in the new state. Council members ultimately found it less difficult to adopt an unprecedented Western-style bill of rights--guaranteeing freedom of speech, religion, privacy and assembly, and an independent judiciary--than to decide who gets to take power next. But Bremer was full of confidence that the question of how a new government will be formed could be thrashed...
...long ago, grandparents like Jane tended to play minor roles in the international adoption process, waiting in the wings for their adult children to return home with babies in hand. But a growing number of grandparents are venturing to places like China, Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America so they can personally welcome adopted children into their families. Agencies like New York City's Spence-Chapin, which arranged Aliya's adoption, say they have witnessed a recent increase in grandparent involvement, especially as more single parents go abroad to adopt...
This is perhaps not the most natural strategy for a film that painstakingly documents the mindset that drove formerly-peaceful activists to adopt a philosophy of violence as the Vietnam War spiraled out of control. The students who made up the Weathermen, later the Weather Underground, chose to express their objections to what they saw as an unjust, needlessly-murderous war with a series of domestic bombings throughout the 1970s on targets including the U.S. Capitol and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs...