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...short of some of the overhauls proposed by Dowling, UC President Andrea R. Flores ‘10 says she believes the reforms will move the UC and the administration in the right direction.“We’re not going to ask them to do the exact things in Dowling,” she says. “There have been basic improvements.”INTERNAL REFORMIn May, the UC passed the UC Reform Act, which amended its constitution to incorporate many of the changes recommended by the Dowling Report, a document that proposed suggestions...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC To Begin Amidst Changes | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...conclusions, but he notes that circumstantial evidence suggests Sparkman may have been killed because of his tangential association with the Federal Government. "It doesn't matter if you're a lowly postal worker or a law-enforcement official or a prosecutor or judge," he said. "History shows us people exact revenge wherever they can get it when they're angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government Distrust and a Dead Census Taker | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Imperial is infinite,” writes William Vollmann. And because saying it once could not possibly capture what he could mean, what he profoundly, obsessively believes, Vollmann writes it again and again—sometimes in those exact words, sometimes in others—over the 1,344-page opus that is his latest book. Imperial, the book’s titular county, is at the very southern tip of California—though its presence is so immeasurable that Vollmann spends several sections trying to define what his Imperial actually encompasses. Vollmann produces a work similar in many...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Topography of a Desert Empire | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...mind as the bands of sunny grass between the aisles of a palm-orchard.” For the next eight years, Vollmann completed “Imperial” doing precisely that. His interests are equally topological and sociological: returns to Imperial not just to research the exact condition of the New River, but to talk to the sad-looking prostitutes one is bound to find along the border as well...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Topography of a Desert Empire | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...American casualties soared to record numbers over the summer, European troop deaths have been creeping upward, provoking hard questions about the exact nature and objectives of the mission from London to Berlin. "The public doesn't really understand what we are doing there," says Romano. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Italy Pull Its Troops out of Afghanistan? | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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