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Harvard cannot claim such influence on the Cambridge City Council, but the Undergraduate Council (UC) does appoint a liaison to work with local officials...
...maintaining the site is only in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, says Los Alamos executive Allen Morris. Still, he says, "we're running on vapor." Barack Obama--who helped win Senate approval for $3.9 billion in flu preparedness and response plans and wants Bush to appoint a flu czar "so that things like this don't slip through the cracks"--says that making the site subscription-based only is "an example of the insufficient investment" in U.S. readiness for a pandemic. Meanwhile, there are new reminders that birds--and viruses--don't respect borders. Croatia tested...
...Surely the outcome of the elections in Germany provides a golden opportunity for the two largest parties to form a grand coalition [Oct. 3]. They can work to institute urgently needed economic reforms without taking exclusive blame for the temporary pain they will cause. The two parties could each appoint an equal number of experts to an economic panel that decides what the most suitable reforms are. Tony Pupkewitz Johannesburg...
...Meanwhile, Republican members of Congress, worried about wasteful spending, will continue their debate with the Bush administration over how to handle the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sen. Tom Coburn has asked Bush to appoint a CFO to monitor Katrina spending, Sen. Judd Gregg continues to call for a separate government agency to oversee Gulf Coast reconstruction and Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to create special Medicaid funding for Katrina victims. The administration has declined to support any of these proposals...
...Surely the outcome of the elections in Germany provides a golden opportunity for the two largest parties to form a grand coalition [Oct. 3]. They can work to institute urgently needed economic reforms without taking exclusive blame for the temporary pain they will cause. The two parties could each appoint an equal number of experts to an economic panel that decides what the most suitable reforms are. Tony Pupkewitz Johannesburg...