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...which reverses last week’s decision not to consider reimbursement to student groups, is a political windfall to Petersen, who has led the effort to repeal the tax as chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee. Timing has worked in Hadfield’s favor, as well. On Thursday, three coursepacks went online at Crimsonreading.com, a site created by Hadfield at the start of this term—a first step toward fulfilling a campaign promise to lower coursepack costs or make them available online.In an otherwise tame presidential debate last Thursday, Hadfield pulled...
Under their constant gaze, a black-market slowly emerged of minors who traded money, foods, or maybe the odd sexual favor for precious beer. I have no doubt that had the tailgate continued through the fourth quarter, a currency of cigarettes would have evolved...
...Turkey, meanwhile, a different kind of skepticism is taking root. When Turkey began membership talks, 64% of Turks in one poll said they were in favor of joining the E.U. By this month that number had dropped to 32%. Nationalist parties critical of the government's pro-E.U. policies are gaining strength. Support for the country's two right-wing Euro-skeptic opposition parties has grown to 26% from about 17% four years ago. If they capture that much of the vote in next year's election, they could force a coalition with Erdogan's AK Party...
...because the media business was, and is, existentially scared. TV audiences and print readerships are shrinking, along with media payrolls; nightly newscasts and newspapers wonder how much longer they will exist, much less thrive. The Administration has played on that fear of irrelevance, freezing out big institutions in favor of friendly local outlets and allies. A Bush aide told reporter Ron Suskind that journalists were an ineffectual "reality-based community." Were the mainstream media dying? The ebullient Bushies seemed to answer, They're already dead...
...whole region. No current or future government in Turkey would condone the emergence of a separate Kurdish entity in northern Iraq, as that would inflame the separatist tendencies of Turkey's Kurdish population. Other Arab countries would probably reject the possibility of another Shi'ite nation. Arguments in favor of partitioning Iraq are neoimperialist and do nothing beneficial for the region. Sait T. Tangor Ankara, Turkey...