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Kirby also reprised the progress of the curricular review, which began in the first year of his term. The review has led to Faculty approval of a semester delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields, but professors are still far from agreement on the shape of the review’s centerpiece—the next system of general education and the future of the Core Curriculum...
...turbines in sites like Bushehr. As Russia loses power politically and economically, the arrogance of its military interest groups grows. These elites wish to cut ties with Western allies to show independence from Washington, filling their bank accounts in the meantime. In 1995, the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission reached an agreement for Russia to stop selling weapons to Iran in exchange for the lifting of American prohibitions on certain technology exports. In light of this precedent, it may be sensible to offer compensation for the lost Iranian profit, as certain negotiators have requested. If we cannot count on their ideology...
...time we've seen a real challenge to the unity of the new Latin American left, and to keep it together through all this would be a great achievement for him. He's already gotten away with things" - like thwarting President Bush's plans for a hemispheric free trade agreement - "that no one thought possible from a Latin American leftist just a few years...
...decision is reached and a written opinion is issued. Deciding which cases to review is “more mechanical than people think,” Breyer said. “If you were to go through my stack tomorrow, you’d be surprised at how much agreement there would be in the cases you would pick for the court to hear and the cases I would pick,” Breyer said. He added that because of the specificity of the criteria used by the court, choosing which cases to review is fairly straightforward. The main criterion...
...African Union negotiators had set a deadline of last Sunday night for the combatants to come to an agreement. Since then, however, mediators - including American and British negotiators flown in to try to break the deadlock - have extended the talks twice. The latest deadline is midnight on Thursday. Sudan's government has agreed to sign the peace plan, but rebel groups are holding out for assurances that the government-sponsored Janjaweed militias, responsible for much of the bloodshed in Darfur, will be disarmed. Rebels also want to share governance of Darfur, a demand the government in Khartoum sees...