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...College has recognized the lack of interaction between its Faculty and its students and has made various proposals to amend the situation. In this year's annual report to the faculty, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles suggested a worthy proposal that would foster interaction between the Faculty and the group of Harvard students with the least amount of faculty interaction: first-year students. Knowles recommended that all first-years should have the opportunity to participate in a freshman Seminar during their first year at college. The atmosphere of these classes, because they are conducted with a pass/fail grading...
...State Strobe Talbott said Sunday that "President Putin made absolutely clear to President Clinton that Russia continues to oppose changes to the ABM treaty that the United States has proposed." In order to deploy the proposed missile-defense system, the U.S. would have to either convince Russia to amend the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids either side from adding to its missile-defense systems, or else back out of the treaty. But the Russians warn that scrapping the treaty - which is based on the logic that defense systems diminish one side's fear of retaliation for launching a nuclear...
...technical problems of the shield pale. When Clinton visits Moscow on June 4 for his first summit with President-elect Vladimir Putin, he wants to make headway on an accord both to slash U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons to between 1,500 and 2,000 and to amend the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 to allow the U.S. to begin building a national missile defense. Instead he may be staring at the collapse of practically every major arms-control treaty...
...When computer code becomes a weapon, when everything becomes immaterial, we will have to make a distinction more precisely between speech, for example, and a weapon," he said. "We may have to amend the Constitution...
...council voted to amend the bill to remove calls for lawyers to be allowed in Administrative Board hearings and to end Ad Board gag orders. Feeling the bill had lost much of its meaning, Orr withdrew his sponsorship...