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...used to exist at Harvard. The task force, called the Alcohol Coalition Committee, will report its findings in May, and has hosted two events to solicit student input during the past month. Another event will take place this Friday. The move to study a potential new alcohol policy comes amid increased concern about alcohol abuse by undergraduates. In October, Princeton’s administration instructed the university’s security staff to patrol dormitory hallways on Thursday and Saturday nights with an eye toward cracking down on alcohol violations. At the same time, the university announced new guidelines?...
This decision to appoint a panel comes amid recent pressure from the EAC, which has called for Harvard to set a date for climate neutrality...
...Beirut. More recently, Mughniyah reportedly assisted militant groups in the Palestinian territories and in Iraq, ensuring that the impact of his death reverberates far beyond Lebanon's borders. Last week, the Kuwaiti embassy in Beirut was evacuated following an anonymous telephone threat to rocket the building. The threat came amid an uproar in Kuwait when Shi'ite lawmakers held a rally to mourn Mughniyah's death, drawing anger and a lawsuit from Sunni legislators. The Kuwaiti authorities blame Mughniyah for a series of attacks in the Gulf state in the 1980s. Kuwait has now joined Saudi Arabia in issuing Lebanon...
...duly did. Northern Rock is a larger and more complex case, but the principles are the same. Instead, Brown and his Chancellor, Alistair Darling, spent five months unsuccessfully trying to find a private-sector solution, which was never in any genuine sense going to be possible, least of all amid the turmoil of today's financial markets. While the situation deteriorated, the taxpayers' exposure grew, and the bank was allowed to continue its high-risk lending. (High-risk borrowing had undone it, but its lending was, and still is, almost equally risky...
...treatment for HIV-positive and AIDS patients in developing countries, while also trying to prevent new infections using the "ABC" approach: abstain, be faithful and use condoms. An earlier controversy over the first tenet of that drive - abstinence, which critics claimed reflected an effort impose a conservative Christian morality amid a humanitarian catastrophe - remains. "Certain constituencies, such as sex workers, are excluded from PEPFAR money," says Ayesha Kajee, program director of the International Human Rights Exchange at Wits University in Johannesburg. But the program is also just one of the ways in which the Bush Administration has dramatically increased...