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...system for students to plan large events at Harvard. Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, who chairs a joint-subcommittee of the Committee on College Life and the Committee on House Life, visited the Undergraduate Council’s meeting last night to discuss a working draft of the subcommittee’s report on events management. In 19 recommendations, the report addresses a variety of issues related to event planning including the number of events that can be held each night, how events are registered, and whether all future events will require tickets...
...Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. Queen’s Head Student Manager Philip R. “Beamer” Eisele ’08 said that six cases of the beer had already been returned by the Pub. The Pub recently added Samuel Adams to its draft selection, a move that largely diffused the importance of the recall. “After we put it back on draft, we didn’t sell it in bottles,” said bartender Christopher J. Benway ’08. Some have expressed discomfort with the nonchalance...
...Burmese junta's version of democracy comes with plenty of catches. First, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning opposition leader who has spent more than a decade under house arrest, will be barred from the 2010 elections because of a peculiar clause in the constitutional draft that disqualifies candidates who have family members who are foreigners. (Suu Kyi's husband, who died in 1999, was English, and her two sons hold British passports.) Second, despite several mentions of the word "democracy" - albeit always attached to the strange phrase "discipline-flourishing" - the draft ensures that the military will...
...Burmese will have the opportunity to peruse the 194-page charter draft. Currently, official copies are available only at government-run bookstores - and they must be purchased. Samizdat versions are available, and some pro-democracy activists have been poring through the text to publicize what they contend are the myriad ways in which the constitution subverts true democratic principles. But even if the draft were widely available, the majority of Burma's 53 million mostly impoverished residents are hardly likely to sit down with a 15-chapter tome...
...country's main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, has called for Burmese voters to reject the draft. But given that Burma's generals (who prefer to call their country Myanmar) rejected a plea by the United Nations to allow international monitoring of the referendum, no outside observer will be able to indicate whether voting irregularities take place. Furthermore, a February law has made criticizing the referendum a crime punishable by imprisonment - hardly an ideal environment for open debate on the charter draft. Amnesty International estimates 700 political prisoners still crowd the country's jails as a result...