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...recent innovations. But beyond these two functions and a small sum to facilitate the UC’s administrative costs, students see very little return for their termbill investment. Do we really need campus-wide parties that no one attends?I suggest that students place an immediate cease-and-desist order on such activities and cut the UC budget by approximately 25 percent. If the Council were truly repentant for its sins, it would offer students the chance to vote on such a scaling back of its responsibilities and reducing its expenses. But since this is unlikely to happen...
...criminal attempt to torpedo the peace process." In Hebron, Israeli security forces coordinated closely with their Palestinian counterparts, who are already in position in the city but function quietly, without uniforms. When, just after the shooting, Hebron youths began to riot, Arafat's gendarmes fanned out, persuading them to desist. Said an officer: "We don't want to give the Israelis any excuse to delay their redeployment...
...program eDonkey, announced at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing on Sept. 28 that his company would “convert eDonkey’s user base to an online content retailer operating in a closed P2P environment.” He did so in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) which threatened immediate litigation unless MetaMachine blocked the sharing of copyrighted content on its networks. Since a June 27, 2005 Supreme Court ruling against Grokster gave record labels and movie studios the green light to sue file-sharing services, the RIAA...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice believes U.S. and European diplomatic efforts will soon bear fruit in the form of international pressure on Iran to desist from its nuclear program. In a wide-ranging interview with TIME on Monday, the secretary of state indicated that Washington is confident of carrying the support of a majority of the 35 members of the board governing the International Atomic Energy Agency for a resolution to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its failure to disclose numerous aspects of its nuclear program. Still, Rice noted, U.S. and European representatives at the IAEA board...
This week's emergency meeting in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, comes as Iran has moved to resume uranium enrichment activity, ending its agreement with three European countries to desist from such activity. The IAEA meeting has been billed as a step towards UN sanctions against Iran...