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...recommend for your transition-time reading a new report from the National Intelligence Council that suggests we reconsider the severity of the Al Qaeda terror threat. This report says Al Qaeda “may decay sooner” than was expected because it has alienated its Muslim supporters with its indiscriminate killing, and with its inattention to social problems such as poverty, unemployment, and education. America has a chance to defeat Al Qaeda by avoiding this mistake, by refocusing more of its efforts in the region on economic and social actions, less on air strikes...
...Scores of Jamaat-ud-Daawa leaders and activists were detained throughout the country and later requested sanctions after the United Nations Security Council declared their organization a terrorist group. However, inspector-general Shaukat Javed of the Punjab Police says many of those placed under detention will have to be freed if evidence of their involvement in the Mumbai attacks is not quickly produced by India, according to the News, a Pakistani English daily...
...annual deforestation rate by 2017, and South Africa initiated a program to stop growth of its carbon emissions by 2025. "Developing countries are starting to signal an emerging willingness to take action," says Jake Schmidt, the international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. That's key, given the fact that developing countries - a category that encompasses nations as different as massive, polluting China and tiny Tuvalu, soon to be swallowed up by rising sea levels - will be responsible for the bulk of future carbon emissions. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...platforms of Undergraduate Council presidential candidates promise academic change. They promise to alter the way freshman courses are graded and to extend the deadline to add or drop courses. Two of the insider tickets have platform points that would mean major changes in the Registrar’s office. The platform of Andrea R. Flores ’10 suggests changing freshman grading to “pass/no record”, similar to the system at MIT. Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 advocates in his presidential platform extending the add/drop deadline from five weeks to eight weeks. Both...
Undergraduate Council candidates’ Web sites prominently display the myriad ways that they hope to improve social life on campus. But the likelihood of their proposals actually being enacted is another issue altogether. Of the five tickets running, three feature candidates seem to be in the race for more than just laughs: Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Alneada D. Biggers ’10, Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Kia J. McLeod, and Charles T. James ’09-’10 and Max H. Y. Wong...