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HISHAM KASSEM Sadly, I have to say yes. It is difficult to commend such a bloody scene. But it achieved something useful. Parallel to the chaos and bloodshed, there is a political process evolving in Iraq. Bloodshed is the price of the transition from Saddam's psychopathic dictatorship. The losses would have been higher had Saddam stayed on. You could easily see that regime lasting another 30 years, under his sons and top generals. Negotiating with Iraq was not an option. There had to be a military intervention. You have a bloc of 22 countries in the Arab world dominated...
...website has very recently been updated to include minutes from UC meetings, updated legislation listings, and agendas. For this, we commend the UC. But even these updates are buried under obscure headers unlikely to be reached by the typical browser. In advance of a complete website redesign, simple steps can be taken to maximize the use of what is already in place. We do hope to see the fruits of a long-promised website overhaul in the near future, and it appears this administration is committed to seeing this initiative through, but in the interim, basic information voids should...
...Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) passed legislation calling for a much-needed reduction in the cost of coursepacks. We commend the UC leadership for taking this first step in fulfilling one of its major campaign promises and urge the College to follow through on the bill’s provisions. Ranging from $10 to over $400, coursepacks can be exorbitantly expensive for students. Thus far in 2006, sourcebooks and coursepacks have costs students over $700,000, most of which is spent on Core courses. The financial burden raises questions of educational inequity, as some students are driven away from otherwise...
...decided that it had to be done. I’m just going to hope that things turn out better for the university.” Ledford, who said he plans to vote no-confidence, also said he intends to commend Krauss for his “civil courage” at Thursday’s meeting. “I think it’s very, very telling, at Harvard or any university, when you have the arts and sciences faculty mobilized enough to start talking [about removal],” Ledford said. “It means they...
...hypocritical, moreover, to commend the Salient for bringing these images more prominently into the marketplace of ideas and then to decline to call on all newspapers to publish them. If the cartoons themselves are an essential component of an important debate, then bringing them to all readers should be a central part of any news source’s commitment to inform...