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...that students are free to sign multiple petitions, this is not a particularly high bar. Nor should it be. The UC Presidential/Vice Presidential race should be open to all who are seriously interested in the position. Aside from it being uncertain whether raising the number of required signatures would deter potential candidates (what’s another couple hours hanging outside a dining hall?)—the end of deterring candidates is itself undesirable. Multiple tickets are important for the UC elections, injecting unconventional, innovative ideas into what otherwise can too easily deteriorate into stolid, insular debates. The competition...
There is persuasive evidence that the supply chain is easily infiltrated. A September report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said flatly, "U.S. control systems cannot help deter illicit rough diamonds from entering the legitimate trade." Another disturbing finding: the U.S. reported exporting more diamonds than it received in 2003-- a remarkable trade imbalance for a nation without a single working mine. The GAO said, with bureaucratic dryness, that such figures were "not plausible...
Enrollment of foreign graduate students increased this fall—both at Harvard and across the nation—easing worries that post-Sept. 11 visa policies would deter overseas applicants from coming here. At Harvard, total enrollment of foreign graduate students increased 3 or 4 percent, said Ricardo Maldonado, assistant director for administration in the Harvard International Office. Foreign student enrollment rose 1 percent nationally, after three years of decline, while first-year enrollment of graduate students jumped 12 percent, according to a study released this week by the Council of Graduate Schools, a national organization dedicated...
...Aleman's record didn't deter Ortega from cozying up to his erstwhile nemesis, and in 2000 the Sandinistas struck a cynical deal with the Liberal Constitutionalists to control Nicaragua's Congress (which this month passed a controversial total ban on abortion) and its courts, and to freeze out the country's more moderate parties. One key dividend for Ortega: In 2001 a Sandinista judge dismissed Narvaez's sexual abuse charges against Ortega, despite the fact that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, has ruled that her case has merit...
...farms from falling agricultural prices due to cheap foreign imports. “The [U.S.] corporations are not the problem...Now my competition is in Canada and Central America,” Bonanno said. While fair trade crops can be more expensive, Bar Am said higher prices may not deter consumers. “You are paying more money but you’re also getting more information. With fair trade, there is the added value of transparency,” he said. Bonanno is more skeptical, however. “There’s a lot of people...