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...that span the gaps of their traditional counterparts will provide further administrative structure to the interdisciplinary initiative. They will be essential to advancing cross-disciplinary work, as they will be able to more effectively recruit specialized faculty, develop interdisciplinary programs, and request funding for equipment and lab space to conduct research in their respective fields.As University-wide departments—which do not currently exist—these new units will further facilitate communication and collaboration among faculty from different schools. Provost Steven E. Hyman, who worked closely with the UPCSE and whose name is on the short list...
...very public battle over who should get the key position of president of the lower house. Lawmakers have no incentive to change their ways. The job is just too comfortable. They might lack, as the head of the Chamber's Ethics Council said last year, "ethics, morality, conduct" but each gets an annual wage and benefits package that exceeds half a million dollars. Every member of congress has a monthly discretionary fund that tops $7,000. This in a country where the minimum wage is around $167. In fact, the outgoing congress voted to give parliamentarians a 91% raise - something...
...years afterwards, he worked as an urban park ranger, a position that enabled him to conduct educational programs at schools in some of New York's better neighborhoods--and in its worst. "They were totally different," he says. "The quality of the teaching, the amount of books ... the inequities were so clear that it forced me to think about what I wanted to do with my life...
...Attorney General Menachem Mazuz plans to conduct a hearing in the next few days before deciding on whether to proceed with the indictment. But legislators and women's groups on Tuesday called for the president to resign; otherwise, they say they will impeach him. Yossi Beilin, leader of the leftist Meretz Party, said: "The damage that has been done to this institution over the last few months is so great that only his immediate resignation can assist the institution's immediate recovery." Israel's presidency is a symbolic rather than an executive position, but it's precisely because the president...
...Afghan security forces, shows that the insurgency is stepping up its military and propaganda effort to weaken the government of President Hamid Karzai. As a prelude to the spring offensive for which NATO-led coalition forces are bracing, the Taliban late last year released a 30-point code of conduct for its soldiers, prohibiting smoking, looting, and taking "young boys with no facial hair onto the battlefield or into their private quarters." The movement that once ruled Afghanistan at gunpoint has also written its own version of constitution for the country...