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...International Monetary Fund austerity program that Indonesia agreed to last October. Earlier, Suharto had seemed oblivious to the crisis when he sparked panic by announcing a budget woven of pure fantasy. The job of leaning on Indonesia now falls to Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Defense Secretary William Cohen, who both visit Jakarta and other Asian capitals this week, along with a senior IMF delegation...
...independent panel on coed training in the military had been appointed in June by Defense Secretary William Cohen because of the 1996 sex scandal at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, where drill sergeants preyed on young recruits. The panel's members--six women and five men--included retired military officers, lawyers, academics and a former journalist. What surprised many Pentagon officials was that the resulting report seemed to focus as much on sex between recruits as it did on sergeant-trainee abuse...
Leaders of the military services have 90 days to respond to the panel's recommendations. Nevertheless, Cohen had already made it clear that he opposes separating men and women during basic training. "We're going to train together," he said flatly in September, "because we're going to fight together." Others have already attacked the findings. "You have to start the unit cohesion and the bonding at the beginning," says Army Major Mary Finch, a West Point graduate and helicopter pilot. Senator Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican who serves on the Armed Services Committee, calls the report "a disturbing step...
...long as we're on the subject of non-political issues that matter to everyone, let me bring one up that somehow did not make it onto this year's laundry lists of proposed quality-of-life improvements: two-ply toilet paper. Yes, that's right, if Stewart and Cohen want to spend their time fighting for things that matter to all students, things that are "non-political" and are within the domain of realistic council intervention, toilet paper is the place to start. Considering that we live in our dorms eight months of the year, our bathrooms should more...
...kidding here. This is as important a quality-of-life issue as any. With the investment of just a bit of their newly-won political capital. Stewart and Cohen should be able to put two-ply in every bathroom from Mather to PfoHo by March--taking action for a change, and in the process flushing away all memories of a student government that once aimed higher...