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...north in 1974. So when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits Cyprus this week as part of an attempt to enforce the U.N.'s Feb. 28 deadline for a plan to stitch the island back together, he will not be dealing with defeated incumbent Glafcos Clerides, who was favorably disposed toward reunification. Instead, Annan will have to address the ideology of canny President-elect Papadopoulos, who has a long, rejectionist history of opposing settlements. Annan can take some comfort from the fact that Papadopoulos recently seems to have had a change of heart. During his election campaign, Papadopoulos...
Critics of cable in the dorm worry about the effect of cable on students’ habits. “I’m not in favor of [students] having [cable] in their rooms because I think it’s too great a temptation,” Adams House Master Sean Palfrey, another member of the working group, told The Crimson last year. And while the University’s goal is to educate students—not entertain them—it is unlikely that students will abandon their studies or their house communities to become zombies...
...along with Bowen, Rudenstine co-authored an article in favor of race-conscious admissions policies which appeared in the Feb. 7 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was cited in Harvard’s brief...
...Mindanao again proving so hospitable to foreign terrorists? The short answer is that the Philippine government is divided over how to tackle the MILF. Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes and the army favor a military solution. But while operations like last week's take place periodically, Manila is simultaneously pursuing negotiations with the MILF leadership. For fear of derailing these talks?and despite additional pressure from the U.S., which has about 300 troops stationed in the Philippines to train the country's military in counterterrorism techniques?President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo refuses to have the MILF designated a terrorist group...
...clearer later," says Dr. Asiri Abubakar, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines, "but as of now they're at best tenuous." Iraq, not surprisingly, charged the Philippines with doing the Americans' bidding. Some regional intelligence sources agree. "I think the Philippines did it to curry favor with Washington," says one senior intelligence official bluntly, echoing opinions that emerged soon after Foreign Secretary Blas Ople went public with the accusations. U.S. President George W. Bush did promise to increase military aid to Manila in a phone conversation with his Philippine counterpart one day prior to the expulsion...