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Franco-American relations began with a marriage of convenience and a blaze of emotion. When the U.S. declared independence, France was still smarting from its defeat by Britain in the Seven Years' War, which ended in 1763. France wanted to even the score; the U.S. wanted French money, supplies and...
Yet Zuma, 65, is the front runner to succeed Thabo Mbeki as President of South Africa. Mbeki has two years left in his second term--the constitution bars him from a third. In December, Zuma will try to replace him as president of the African National Congress (ANC), which has...
Take, for example, the late 1960s, when administrators created a litany of committees to deal with Harvard students prone to occupying campus buildings. There was the Fainsod Committee, which examined Faculty protocols and which created the Committee of Fifteen to contemplate “changes in the governance of the...
Fortunately, we peons have our cunning UC advocates to defend our bureaucratic birthright. “The Faculty has placed in [UC-appointed committee members] the responsibility for recommending to it policies related to student life and house life, respectively,” declared SAC Chair Michael R. Ragalie ?...
For the past eight years Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, has run the country as both President and general. That straddling of both offices - which many say contravenes Pakistan's constitution - was challenged in October when Musharraf won a second term as President with 98% of the...