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...committee also voted in favor of postponing consideration of a public service group, the Boston Intercollegiate Service Organization (BISCO), that would work in conjunction with students from other Boston-area colleges...
Surveying the entire curriculum, the 69-page document issued recommendations from abolishing the Core Curriculum in favor of a distribution requirement to a mandated international experience...
...push back against the plan to put the UN's man in charge of shaping Iraq's interim government. Nor is the Iraqi Governing Council, whose dissolution Brahimi is recommending, will go quietly. Some, like Chalabi, whose limited political influence in Iraq appears to be entirely dependent on the favor he enjoyed in Washington and his ability to parlay that among other Iraqis on the Governing Council, have made clear they plan to fight against any effort to dissolve the IGC and put the UN in charge of picking a replacement...
...plans to “ram through” an increase in the SAF. This is false. Every member of the Undergraduate Council with whom I have spoken is committed to following the will of the students. I am convinced, however, that as students carefully review the arguments in favor of raising the SAF, they will see that all students—not just those on the council—stand to benefit from an augmented fund for student activities...
...international standing came on the back of a simple demand. He issued a call last July that delegates for a planned constitutional convention be elected. When that idea was scrapped in November in favor of an interim legislative body, he reiterated that that body too must be elected. In the process, he managed to force the Bush Administration into agreeing to give the United Nations a greater role in Iraq's reconstruction and ensured that Iraqi Shi'ites' newfound political power would be cemented in elections. "His message is very simple: Democracy equals elections; elections equal democracy," says Ahmad Chalabi...