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Pentagon planners triggered alarms throughout the world last week with the leak of a document suggesting the U.S. wanted to greatly expand the battlefield use of nuclear weapons - and the countries it might use them against. The proposal was a radical departure from current nuclear military thinking that nuclear weapons are best used as a threat to keep others from attacking you. The U.S. nuclear arsenal had been developed principally as a last-ditch deterrent against a Soviet invasion of Europe, and the U.S. had promoted non-proliferation by pledging not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states...
...terror has not been vigorously fought on every front. Take, for example, the mysterious case of Parlindungan Siregar. According to an Indonesian intelligence report obtained by TIME, he was a senior instructor at an al-Qaeda training camp 10 km outside Poso, on the island of Sulawesi. The document gives a detailed breakdown of the location and staffing of the camp: Arabic was the working language; new arrivals were issued pistols and Kalashnikov automatic rifles and then asked to show their commitment to jihad by joining in the island's bloody Muslim-Christian clashes. Indonesia's most senior civilian intelligence...
This behavior was consistent with the vision of the same University-wide statement on Rights and Responsibilities that Summers recently interpreted. That document makes clear that “it is the responsibility of officers of administration and instruction to be alert to the needs of the University community; to give full and fair hearing to reasoned expressions of grievances; and to respond promptly and in good faith to such expressions and to widely expressed needs for change...
...committee is charged with reviewing five aspects of the residency requirement, including its history and the implications of changing it, according to a document released Friday by the Office of the Provost...
...addition, the committee will propose an approval process for new degree programs and recommend measures to assure the quality of non-residential programs, the document said...