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...Meng, another of the report’s authors, said he was optimistic.“We need to put all our beautiful minds together to come with practical and sustainable strategies for teaching,” he said.OTHER BUSINESSTen members of the Faculty have already been chosen to assist President-elect Drew G. Faust in her selection of the next dean of the Faculty—the same group that advised Interim President Derek C. Bok last spring. At yesterday’s meeting, Dean Knowles praised Faust for the celerity of her work.“President-elect...
...first four minutes—Connolly scored the third after recovering from a fall—to expand its lead to 9-5, its cushion lead of the game.The Crimson managed to bounce back. Minutemen defenders failed to see a completely open Mahler, who scored easily off an assist by sophomore attackman Max Motschwiller.Duboe followed Mahler’s goal by ripping another one through the defense to closing the third quarter with the UMass lead down to two.After a slow start in the fourth quarter, the teams exchanged goals to make the score 10-8.The Crimson, determined...
...meantime, the United Nations needs to start talking about nukes in space and should encourage member nations assist the research effort, since any large collision would have global consequences. Congress needs to designate an entity that would lead the response to an NEO, Rohrabacher says; and we need to do it now, not when an NEO is about to hit. “Everyone always wants to ignore the worst-case scenarios,” he says. “That’s not the way to be safe...
...nonbinding resolution introduced by a Japanese-American Democratic congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives that calls on Japan to make a fuller apology for the abuse of the "comfort women." That, Abe has said, would never happen - and on Thursday he announced that his government would assist a group of right-wing Japanese legislators in their efforts to reinvestigate the allegations of forced prostitution in order to refute "ungrounded criticism" of Japan's wartime behavior. Nariaki Nakayama, the former education minister who is leading the group, denies any military role in procuring "comfort women," and last week said...
...moral high ground last week when he publicly expressed doubt that the Japanese military during World War II had coerced citizens of occupied countries into becoming "comfort women," a euphemism for sex slaves. Though Abe's aides scrambled to downplay his statement, he announced today that his government would assist a group of right-wing Japanese lawmakers in their efforts to reinvestigate the comfort women issue - which could be the first move in overturning a 1993 government apology on the subject. That Japan's Prime Minister is seen as calling on North Korea to come clean on the kidnapping...