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...everyone is trying to diagnose and treat Harvard’s political crisis. One prominent viewpoint prescribes a sort of University senate, whereby the University faculty— and not just each individual one—would have a means to assert its views. This institutional innovation, its supporters claim, would have the double-benefit of preventing overreaching by the president or by any single faculty in university-wide matters...
Secondly, those who claim that such a system would provide a unified public-relations front for the University forget that the University already has a single voice: the central administration and governing boards. These bodies tend to take more of a long-run view and are stewards of the overall good of the institution. Instead of adding to unity, a faculty senate reflecting the interests of individual fiefdoms would only exacerbate dissonance...
SLAM also listed its grievances against Coke, which included the claim that Coke’s management has collaborated with Colombian paramilitaries to quash unionization efforts in that country...
...Congress has tried in the past to require the original shipper to provide additional information, such as where the container was packed with its cargo. But U.S. retailers who import goods from overseas claim that more disclosure makes such cargo an inviting target for thieves, an argument that has worked so far but doesn't satisfy critics. The problem is, "we don't know whether the manifests are accurate or not when the ships are loaded," says Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who has sponsored legislation to strengthen maritime security. "The containers are not tracked as they come overseas," Murray adds...
...Hundreds of bodies were packed into the morgue, the paper reported, and wailing relatives clustered around the doorway hoping to claim the body of a loved one. Meanwhile, Sunni leaders seethed at the assault on their community, and said they weren?t surprised that the number of people reportedly killed was much higher than official figures: ?They never give the right number,? said Saleh Mutlak, a leading Sunni politician. ?Because they are the killers. Their militias are the killers...