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...Kosovo matters to our future because it underscores three alarming features of the current international system. First, it exposes the chill in relations between the U.S. and Russia, which is making it difficult for the U.N. Security Council to meet 21st century collective-security challenges. Putin has used the Kosovo standoff as yet another excuse to flaunt his petro-powered invincibility, sending his likely successor, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, to Belgrade to sign a gas agreement. If a firm international response is to be mobilized toward Iran, Sudan or other trouble spots in the coming years, the U.S. will...
...Kosovo, destroyed two customs posts, and clashed with ethnic Albanian police. Student demonstrators have rallied daily along the Ibar River that divides Serb from Albanian areas in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, chanting, "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Kosovo is ours!" For Marko Jaksic, head of the Serbian National Council in Mitrovica, such action is not optional; a failure to rebel against "the formation of another Albanian state," he told a Serbian crowd in northern Kosovo, is "tantamount to treason...
University President Drew G. Faust, Dartmouth President James E. Wright, and Gutmann—who is the chair of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents, the governing body of the Ivy League athletic conference—will oversee the committee that will choose Orleans’ replacement. The search will begin this fall...
...blush, the idea appears to be something you can get your hands around. Presidential experience means a familiarity with the levers and dials of government, knowing how to cajole the Congress, understanding when to rely on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and when to call on the National Security Council - that sort of thing. But bear down even slightly, and the notion of experience is liable to crack and run all over. If knowing the system is so useful, then second-term presidencies should be more successful than first-term. Instead, many Presidents lose effectiveness as they go along. Lyndon...
...Undergraduate Council has begun soliciting applications for student seats on the College’s Committee to Examine the Role of the Student in College Governance, even though Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith has given no indication as to whether he will accept the UC’s recommendations.The Council will select three non-UC undergraduates and two UC members to fill the five students spots on the committee. Smith will have the final say on the makeup of the committee, and the UC’s selections do not guarantee that he will accept the Council?...