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According to Glazer, the executive committee will bring the Council’s concerns before the rest of the Ad Board, adding that the issue would have to go through the new deputy dean whom Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 will appoint. Gross himself would then make the final decision...
That, for the moment, seems to have been accomplished. But now comes the much trickier task of making Brahimi's proposal work. While many of its details are still works in progress, the plan calls for Brahimi to appoint a panel of Iraqis who would help the U.N. name a President, two Vice Presidents, a Prime Minister and a group of technocrats to run ministries and prepare the country for elections in early 2005. Critically, it attempts to bring Sunni Muslims--who make up about 30% of Iraq's population and who ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein--back into...
...constitutionality of restricting marriage to heterosexual couples in November, opponents of gay marriage have stopped at almost nothing to delay the issuing of marriage licenses to gay couples scheduled to begin on May 17. The latest comes from Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who is seeking, through emergency legislation, to appoint a special counsel that would ask the court to postpone its final ruling for another couple of years—in hopes that a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage recently approved by the state legislature may be passed by voters before any marriage licenses are issued. Last month, Democratic Attorney...
...letter, Summers proposed a number of strategies the U.S. government could use to relax the visa requirements for students from foreign countries like China. He suggested that the government implement the State Department’s new proposal to give priority to students scheduling immigration-related appointments. He also wrote in his letter that the government should consider creating “timeframes for the adjudication of visa application,” appoint an ombudsperson within the State Department to help universities with speciality visa cases, allow university students security clearances, and conduct “comprehensive background checks...
...Iraqis that this transition is going to be well-managed, including the part that shifts U.S. power from L. Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority to a new U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Ideally, the ambassador, who requires Senate confirmation, should have been nominated before now. The Administration must appoint and provide security for the estimated 3,000 embassy personnel, who must get out into the country...