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...usefulness: chief among them a way for student organizations to automatically add events and meetings to the calendars of their members. If Harvard students could specify the student organizations to which they belong, the announcements and calendar entries they receive could be customized for each student. Student groups already appoint members to run their mailing lists. Why not give those same people the power to add student group events automatically to the my.Harvard calendars of all their members...
Putin’s most noted—and the most anti-democratic—proposal is to allow the president to appoint regional governors instead of letting citizens elect them. This would effectively end Russia’s federal experiment and decrease the checks on the central government built into the current constitution. And with the national legislature satisfied to remain a pliant tool of the Kremlin, that means more unchecked control for the president. But just to make sure it stays that way, Putin wants every member of the Duma, the lower house of parliament, to be elected...
...method in Moqtada Sadr's madness can best be seen in the list of people lining up to mediate an end to the standoff in Najaf. At last count, they included not only a delegation from the national conference in Baghdad convened to appoint an interim legislature, but also UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and even Pope John Paul II. Sadr may be vowing to fight to the finish against a combined U.S.-Iraqi force that vastly outnumbers and outguns his own, but in the process he's taken center-stage in the battle to shape post-Saddam Iraq. Indeed...
...only work for the good of Islamic Studies at HDS,” he wrote. “It makes it more likely that we will appoint a serious, non-ideological scholar. This is a field we need badly...
...terms, though just short of explicitly. “I will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. I will have a secretary of defense who will listen to the best advice of our military leaders. And I will appoint an attorney general who actually upholds the Constitution of the United States...