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...book prices and signaled a turn towards the “nitty-gritty” aspects of acting on that focus, according to Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09. The relevant proposal spanned seven of the UC’s 10-page meeting agenda, boasted two appendices, and included two schematics detailing the present and future configurations for the sharing of textbook and coursepack information. Currently, the Coop, Harvard College Libraries, and crimsonreading.org—the UC’s own website that compares textbook prices among different book retailers—fail...
...homecoming is a small but important victory in the battle to curb illegal immigration - not at the border, but at its source in the dusty recesses of impoverished rural Mexico. The nation's massive labor migration - what President Felipe Calderon calls his country's "open wound" - was a top agenda item during his recent meeting with President George W. Bush. But if Bush was serious when he said "the working poor of Latin America need change," then many feel the U.S. should start helping burgs like Santa Cruz build the kind of small enterprises that can jump-start more viable...
This is not the first time FAS professors have ignored the importance of pedagogy. Last May, when mandatory CUE evaluations were on the agenda, the Faculty could not vote on the proposal because it failed to reach a quorum...
...similar vein with a set of policy proposals that he calls "Putting Parents First." Bush's signature approach to domestic policy fell short in that regard, Levin wrote in the Weekly Standard. "Compassionate conservatism, for all its virtues, does not even try to address itself to parents. A conservative agenda that did so would not only cement a relationship with these voters, it would also appeal to many with similar worries who do not share the strong cultural predilections that have drawn middle- and lower-middle-class parents to vote for Republicans...
...companies on grounds that the Iranian regime had used it to finance weapons of mass destruction, and now the U.S. hopes to use the Security Council resolution to hamper its access to global capital markets. But in a sign that not all the Security Council powers share the U.S. agenda, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told Reuters, "The main objective is our concern about Iranian nuclear and missile activities, so there is no need to expand beyond that area" - and quoted Bank Sepah as an example where the resolution would have to be narrowed to exclude affecting transactions unrelated...