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Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) seems the likely candidate for this advantageous position—in fact, they drew up the original proposal. But while HSA showed a good sense of initiative and a benevolent desire to save students money, the council judiciously refused to prematurely cede its endorsement to HSA. Indeed, the bill’s stated purpose of minimizing student expenditures is best served by shrewdly investigating all possible plans to reduce the costs to students. The council has embraced this route and wisely stated a desire to limit the duration of the first contract to one year...
...determined to cede political control by June 30 and the Iraqis are not prepared to allow an unelected body to assume full political control, a bridge is required - and given the willingness of the Shiite leadership to accept the UN as an honest broker, there may be growing pressure to use the Security Council as the vehicle to mandate a transition process that also creates a legal framework mandating the coalition to continue in its role as guarantor of security...
...source close to Reischauer said he was unlikely to cede his place on the Corporation or his position as president of the Urban Institute...
...President Bush will never cede the best interests of the national security of the American people to anybody but the president of the United States, along with the Congress,” said the spokesperson, Kevin A. Madden...
...scariest scenario is that Musharraf's fellow military officers are plotting against him. (Musharraf could cede control of the military in months; under the agreement with legislators legitimizing his presidency, he promised to step down as army Chief of Staff by 2005.) Many in the military are more Islamic-minded than the President; others are angered by his abandonment of the Taliban, which the Pakistani armed forces helped create, and of Kashmiri jihadis, whom they aided. The circumstances of the December attacks suggest inside help. The plotters apparently knew the President's route and schedule and, in the Christmas attack...