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Students hoping to expand undergraduate study abroad options will present a petition to College administrators this week, urging them to amend a policy that discourages travel to 29 countries...
Egypt is finally emerging from an unusually frosty winter, but the political indicators suggest that the country may be in for a long, hot summer. The presidential election scheduled for September is generating more interest and tension than ever, thanks to plans to amend the constitution to allow opposition candidates to run directly against President Hosni Mubarak. And even as Mubarak and his challengers wage what is certain to be a contentious political campaign, terrorists have struck in Cairo three times in less than a month...
Numerous reasons, including academic and financial discrimination, have been cited by students and faculty as evidence of the University’s need to amend its policy...
...still leaves 425 active sites--perhaps 25% too many, in the view of the latest and leaner-minded Defense Department boss. Next month Rumsfeld will list the bases he wants closed or moved, and a nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission has until Sept. 8 to approve or amend his recommendations. Then Bush must accept or reject the final list--on an all-or-none basis--and submit it to Congress, whose only option is to pass a joint resolution by Nov. 7 to turn down the list in its entirety. Otherwise it becomes binding...
...fact remains that despite a strong constituency who seem unshakable in their opposition to Summers, an even larger majority wants to look forward and amend ties with their battered chief, flawed though he may be. Indeed, the Faculty’s choice to vote in greater numbers for the proposal of Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, which articulated regrets over Summers’ actions but also interest in reconciliation and future collaboration, indicates that there is a silver lining in the Summers storm. Moreover, many of Summers’ most fervent supporters?...