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...What's the issue? A very basic one: whether Hong Kong people will be allowed to directly elect their Chief Executive and all of their legislators. The Basic Law promises direct elections as an "ultimate aim." Currently, the Chief Executive is chosen by an 800-member electoral college that is overwhelmingly pro-Beijing, and 60% of the Legislative Council, or Legco, the territory's law-making body, is appointed or elected from business and social groups that strongly favor the status quo. The Basic Law says that setup can be changed "if there is a need...
...idea of a doughnut whistling through the air is such an enticement that they get up and actually make it happen." Inspired by the zany book, Prague's opulent Caf? Imperial caters to the third kind. For $72, you can buy a bowl of day-old doughnuts and take aim?at friends, other patrons, even staff. (The caf? picks up the dry-cleaning tab if the guest complains.) Doughnut battles break out at least twice a month. In between volleys of pastry, you can admire the caf?'s 1914 Art Nouveau tiles, featuring leaping stags, nesting birds and cherubs...
...writing in response to Lia C. Larson’s column on March 26, 2004 (“Division in the Details”). While the overall aim of most women’s groups at Harvard is to improve the experience of women, each organization approaches this objective from a different angle. And while it is important, as Larson states, to “unify voice,” it is also important to recognize that some groups are better suited to effectively approach women’s issues within certain arenas. For example, Women and Science...
...these initiatives aim to create a forum for ideas, for sharing challenges, suggestions, thoughts and events. We are working to support dialogue and to support one another within our various focuses, missions and respective arenas. In the future, The Seneca hopes to continue to collaborate with groups where our missions coincide. For example, The Seneca is working with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) to host a spring speaker event. I have seen women’s groups work together, such as: RUS with the Association of Black Harvard Women, Latinas Unidas, the Society of Arab Students, Asian-American communities...
...Neither Bush nor Sharon nor sizable popular majorities in both their countries think so. "All of Hamas' welfare and sermons and education and health care has one aim," says Kupperwasser, the Israeli intelligence analyst, "to make people ready to participate in terrorist acts. As long as they convince Palestinians to look at suicide bombers as heroes and martyrs, instead of the roadblock to peace, Hamas is going to be successful." And at the moment, Hamas' power is unchallenged. Both Americans and Israelis believe that Arafat's downtrodden Palestinian Authority has the means to dismantle Hamas but not the will, whereas...