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...This is one of the most intelligent populations anywhere in the world, and I see no justification for there not being universal franchise." JOHN MAJOR, former British Prime Minister, criticizing Beijing's decision to delay universal suffrage in Hong Kong...
...recommitment to a broad liberal arts education and a distancing from “increasing specialization and professionalization.” And the curricular review correctly identified early concentration choice as one of the prime inhibiting factors towards its ultimate end. The curricular review’s recommendation to delay the concentration decision to the end of Fall term of sophomore year—still a semester before the vast majority of our peer institutions—is of critical importance to the whole of its vision. This vision significantly deemphasizes a culture of producing academicians—a goal...
Under new campaign-finance rules, big donors can no longer spend lavish sums to entertain politicians at the parties' national conventions. But that won't stop the partying this year. House majority leader Tom DeLay has set up a tax-exempt charity called Celebrations for Children, which will raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from top donors at the Republican Convention in New York City by offering them yacht cruises, tickets to Broadway shows and the chance to mingle with Republican lawmakers at parties. DeLay aides say all the net proceeds will go to programs for foster children, a cause...
...increasingly to powerful Hamas moneyman Khaled Meshaal for instructions and financial support. The group's chief fund raiser, who splits his time between Qatar and Syria, has become more assertive. When political leaders in Gaza were about to select a moderate as their new chief, he ordered them to delay the appointment. But Meshaal could in some ways be a moderating influence on the Gaza fighters. He is resisting pressure from some who, enraged by the Bush-Sharon deal, want to strike U.S. interests in the Middle East. Meshaal is said to fear that such attacks would anger supporters...
...planning decisions. Yet the FDA seems more concerned with how this policy will affect teen sex rates rather than how it could reduce teen pregnancy rates. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine condemns the FDA for allowing “political considerations” to delay their decision on this issue...