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...argued that the impetus behind the Iraq invasion was not to promote democracy, as the Bush administration claimed. Chomsky instead said that the American government ordered an invasion of Iraq in order to maintain its hegemony against China and to establish a U.S.-friendly puppet government...
...team than for our record haul of 24 Winter Olympic medals. Theo Luykenaar Burlington, Canada Learning Europe's Values I was very surprised by the Europeans' resistance to Indian tycoon Lakshmi Mittal's takeover bid for Arcelor steel [Feb. 13]. We in the East are working very hard to establish societies based on European values. But the European hostility toward an Indian's move into their world has shattered our confidence. On the merger issue, it is very sad to note that the Europeans turned out to be as conservative as any traditional Easterner. Their reaction confirmed that a strong...
...Dean’s Office and HCL to explore three strategies for reducing the cost of coursepacks. For starters, professors and teaching staff should receive more guidance about how to use electronic resources effectively when compiling coursepacks. Secondly, the Dean’s Office should work with HCL to establish a centralized system to ensure that departments are doing all that they can to utilize E-Resources to bring down the cost of coursepacks. At Columbia College Chicago, for example, teaching staff submit reading lists and librarians create a web page with links directly to the articles that are available...
...Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative. Says Yidana Ibrahim, a Ghanaian filmmaker whose documentary on water issues, In Your Hands, screened last year: "This festival will encourage more young Ghanaian filmmakers to make environmental films. This festival could really have an impact." And once the schoolkids take off their eclipse...
Just two days after the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) raised questions about an Undergraduate Council (UC) plan to establish a center that would reduce coursepack costs, the UC passed a new proposal last night urging Harvard to help low-income students pay for course materials.The proposal, co-sponsored by the Students Taking On Poverty (STOP) Campaign, supports the establishment of a Course-Cost Assistance Program, which would use Financial Aid Office funds to provide $125-per semester stipends to undergraduates with family incomes under $40,000. Under the UC plan, students with family incomes between...