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Still, proponents of a lower MLDA persist with this “forbidden fruit” speculation and some fallacious comparisons. For instance, shouldn’t a country that sends 18-year-olds to war also let them drink? Perhaps other minimum ages deserve amendment, but the bottom line...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: For Drinking, 21 the Right Number | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

This legislation greets the Faculty seven months after a similar—but considerably more expansive—piece of legislation was tabled: a bill that would have required all professors, as well as all TFs to take part in CUE evaluations. At that meeting, vocal critics destroyed momentum that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: TFs vs. Professors | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

The CGE’s concern for these TFs is understandable, and their legislation rightfully appeals to their constituents. Yet even the bill’s foremost proponent, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol, who chairs the CGE and the recently formed Task Force on...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: TFs vs. Professors | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

It's an irresistible coinage: "cha cha," short for charter change, has become the Philippines' preferred catchphrase for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's push for a constitutional amendment that would shift the nation from an American-style bicameral legislature to a single-house parliamentary system. But political wrangling over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Step Forward, One Step Back | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Supporters say the amendment would clear the legislative deadlock between the Philippines' House and Senate. But Arroyo's critics see the move as a naked power grab, noting that by invalidating current term limits, it could conceivably enable Arroyo to stay in power as Prime Minister after her term as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Step Forward, One Step Back | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

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