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...motion on the agenda for the Feb. 28 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) implores the Harvard Corporation, the only body with the power to fire University President Lawrence H. Summers, to intervene in the escalating battle between professors and the central administration. While past Faculty motions have expressed professors’ displeasure with the president, the new resolution reflects rising frustration with the Corporation’s continued silence on the Summers storm. The motion, which was put on the docket by Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Daniel S. Fisher and obtained by The Crimson...
...effectively guts the directive, but Barroso appears unconcerned. "After the vote, we'll have a directive that fulfills our goals for a truly internal market for services while addressing the social concerns that exist in some of our countries." Is such optimism warranted? Barroso sees hope for the reform agenda in what he calls a "a courageous reform" by the French government, whose National Assembly last week pushed through a new law designed to encourage firms to hire more young people by allowing companies to easily fire workers under 26 during their first two years on the job. Signs that...
...Sondhi now seems to have just one aim in life: to topple Thaksin. He says he will move beyond street protests to building a "grand coalition" with academics and other activists. "This has become a national agenda," he told TIME. In his weekly radio address on Feb. 4, the Prime Minister said Sondhi was taking him on for personal reasons because he refused to help Sondhi out in a business venture. Sondhi fires back: "I'm doing this for principle ... [Thaksin] has betrayed the people's trust...
...four-year cease-fire, many fear it is drifting back into full-blown conflict. Norwegian facilitators have persuaded the Sinhalese government and the Tigers to meet in Geneva later this month, the first time the two sides have come together in three years. The sole item on the agenda is to discuss better implementation of a cease-fire agreement, signed in Feb. 2002, but which is now on life support. "There will be some pretty important people from both sides there," says a Western diplomat in Colombo. "And the hope is that if you get them together in a room...
...says a senior diplomat from one of Iraq's neighboring countries. "They want as much power as they can get, which is understandable-but potentially disastrous ... We believe Khalilzad is the best person you have sent to Iraq. He speaks to all sides and doesn't have an ideological agenda. But there may come a time when Khalilzad will need support, when worldwide pressure on the Shi'ite will be necessary...