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Though she described herself as an “optimist who worries,” much of Albright’s speech dealt with what she saw as a dire situation in the Middle East...
...even for those groups not subject to the vagaries of familial favor, the long-term unreliability of funding sources remains an inescapable problem that must be dealt with continuously. In the spring of 2006, the Mission Hill After School Program was shaken to its foundations by a political transition in the Undergraduate Council. Year after year, Mission Hill had received the same amount of money from the UC. Suddenly, the new Financial Committee decreed that Mission Hill would receive zero dollars of funding that semester...
...that there wasn’t just a scattershot of amendments,” Ulrich said. According to Economics Chair James H. Stock, the Caucus amendments address two areas: the body that will oversee general education courses, and the details of the requirements themselves. Some of the amendments dealt with smaller details of phrasing. Physics Chair John Huth proposed that the words “real world” be omitted from a category dealing with the sciences, Gordon said. Gordon also voiced concern about how the categories in the legislation, which is based on the general education report finalized...
...IPCC had concluded in February that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity were "very likely" the chief driver of global warming, and Friday's report dealt with its human and ecological impact. But clashes between scientists and political officials over its wording almost prevented the report from being published on schedule. Countries such as China, Russia and the U.S. reportedly pushed to water down the IPCC's predictions, while the scientists whose work formed the backbone of the report fought back in an all-night session preceding Friday's release...
...Fifty years ago, parenting was so much simpler for Asian men. As the sole breadwinner, a dad's responsibilities typically ceased the moment he crossed the threshold of his home and flopped into his favorite chair, while mom dealt with the dinner and the children. "The father in the previous generation was more aloof, removed from the family and emotionally more detached," says Daniel Wong, a University of Hong Kong professor of social welfare and author of a 2003 study on the stresses faced by dads. Says Benjamin Naden, a client manager at Microsoft in Singapore who sometimes snatches...