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...types in Adams and other houses. Some suites have walk-through bathrooms, which would present a problem for co-ed arrangements. In Leverett Towers, for example, all eight or so residents on a “half-floor” would need to consent to the co-ed rooming agreement, according to Georgi. And Cambridge Historical Commission guidelines restrict the extent to which Dunster House, built in 1930, could conduct internal renovations to accommodate co-ed arrangements, according to Co-Master Ann Porter. “We agree on the principle, but there’s a lot to work...
...nuclear deal George Bush signed with much fanfare in New Delhi on March 2 may not be dead on arrival, but it has certainly landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. Even though it is too early to tell whether opponents will build enough momentum to block the landmark agreement, what's already striking is how silent-and unenthusiastic-Congress seems over an agreement the Bush Administration hails as critical for cementing a strategic alliance with the world's largest democracy...
...also wasn't thrilled when Hyde told her the first hearing he planned on the India deal would be with outside experts-some of whom would certainly pick it apart. Four days later, on March 13, Hyde issued a press release announcing hearings, which said: "This is a complex agreement with profound implications for U.S. and global interests. Congress will need to take a close look at its many provisions in order to come to an informed decision...
...Senate, Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has warmed only slightly to the agreement. Immediately after Bush signed it, Lugar was noncommittal. On Monday, he budged a little, telling his hometown newspaper, the Indianapolis Star, in an interview that he was "likely to favor" the accord if it was "in the best interest of our country" and if there were safeguards in place to make sure India didn't use U.S. nuclear help to build up the small arsenal of nuclear weapons it already...
...agreement to have India put its civilian nuclear power facilities under international inspection in exchange for being able to buy nuclear technology from the U.S. isn't a treaty, which would require only Senate ratification by a two-thirds vote. But it does require amendments to the 1945 Atomic Energy Act, which both the House and Senate must approve by majority votes, because that decades-old law effectively prohibits nuclear aid to India, which detonated an atomic device in 1974 and has refused to submit all its nuclear activities to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). India conducted...