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...McCain wants to stay the course in Iraq. And despite his admirable record of fiscal probity in the Senate, his campaign statements about the deficit have been less than convincing. He wants to extend the Bush tax cuts that he once opposed - and add a few more of his own, saying he'll make up the difference by cutting "wasteful spending." But even eliminating the pork-barrel congressional earmarks that McCain has long criticized would make only a dent in the deficit...
...existence of a 24-hour library during the school week. Nearly three years since Harvard College Library (HCL) first approved a 24/5 Lamont, students continue to use the library for quiet study space on school nights, when exams and paper deadlines beckon. It is now time to extend that promise to Friday and Saturday nights. The onset of reading period erodes the distinction between weekdays and weekends. Classes no longer meet during the week, and finals are administered on Saturdays as well as weekdays. During exam period, HCL tries to accommodate students’ needs by keeping Lamont open until...
...turn to doing what they can to help the less fortunate, and, in time, to ameliorate the conditions that gave rise to disaster in the first place. This second reaction isn't just a personal one - that of neighbors trying to assist those who have been harmed. It can extend to an examination of whole systems of government. The Mexico City earthquake of 1985 was the catalyst that convinced a generation that a nation's political system needed radical reform. A year later, after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev saw that the Soviet Union could not continue...
...Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence came off quietly at first. Beginning with the U.S. and major European powers, 39 countries have now formally recognized Kosovo. But problems started when the new government and its Western backers tried to extend authority into the Belgrade-backed, NATO-secured "enclaves" where most of Kosovo's Serbs have lived since the 1999 Kosovo war. The government in Belgrade urged Serbs working for the U.N., including police and customs officers, to quit their jobs, then rehired about 800 police at double their former salaries. On March 17, U.N. and NATO peacekeepers tried to arrest...
...Official fears extend to the possibility of embarrassing protests, and authorities are seeking ways to limit their exposure. Two weeks ago, police ordered the Midi Music Festival, a four-day outdoor rock concert that was to begin May 1, to reschedule to October. Zhang Fan, founder of the nine-year-old event, told the Associated Press, "I understand the [police are] mainly concerned about young people gathering together and doing radical things...