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...forward 50 years. An Irish rock star reads the treaty with the enthusiasm a child has for cold peas but does uncover what I think technocrats might call poetry. Not much of it--just a turn of phrase here and there. Like Article 177, which summons the signatories to foster "the sustainable economic and social development of the developing countries and more particularly the most disadvantaged among them" and calls for a "campaign against poverty in the developing countries." Not exactly Thomas Jefferson but a glimpse of the kind of vision that might bind...
...Democrats, it is a veritable free-for-all. Louisiana public service commissioner Foster Campbell, a North Louisiana populist in the Huey Long tradition, is in the running. But many are pinning their hopes on former U.S. Senator John Breaux, who left office in 2005 to join a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. Breaux remains a popular, widely known figure, but there's one problem: having changed his permanent address to Maryland, he may be ineligible to run for state office under residency requirements set forth in Louisiana's constitution, a snag Republicans started hammering away at in television attack...
...Harvard switched to the current, randomized process where blocking groups have no control over the house in which they would spend the next three years. The endeavor aimed to foster racial mixing and end the concentration of minority students and athletes in certain houses. Reaction to this plan was fairly mixed at first, with some student minority leaders expressing doubts about the consequences of the move. For instance, Derrick N. Ashong ’97, a former president of the BSA, worried that the plan would cause splintering in the Black community...
...according to the group’s mission statement. The Foundation, which organizes campus staples such as the annual Cultural Rhythms shows, has been led by S. Allen Counter for its entire 25-year history, and a team of paid undergraduate interns works to publicize inter-cultural events and foster discourse on topics like diversity and racial communities...
...inculcating its children with certain values and norms, even in an extremely conservative state like Mormon-dominated Utah. Yet we firmly believe that the primary role of the school must be to provide a forum for intellectual exploration and freedom of inquiry. Educational institutions must, first and foremost, foster discussion and engagement with a variety of perspectives—both in the classroom and through extracurricular activity. To bar extracurricular discourse on sexuality in the name of a conservative and intolerant notion of social propriety violates this sacrosanct educational mission, instead reinforcing a discriminatory practice and denying students their basic...