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...nice, marginal progress toward making freshmen dorms more like Houses cannot justify the eviction of so many student groups, especially in the face of the massive increase in social space that the completion of the Lamont Café and the Loker Pub will herald.As for Hilles itself, the furor raised by some student groups on Monday about the layout and amenities of the offices themselves was overblown. The plans for Hilles are still in a state of flux. On Monday, Dean McLoughlin presented plans for offices that had no doors, and whose walls were formed by Hilles’ teak...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Europe this week looks set to be dominated by the furor over allegations about CIA activities on European soil in relation to terror suspects. The issue has been the focus of a mounting clamor for answers in the weeks since the Washington Post first alleged that the CIA may have maintained secret prisons in Eastern Europe, culminating in a formal request by the European Union for an explanation. But sources tell TIME that Secretary Rice plans to come out swinging, shifting the focus back to the responsibilities of Europe?s governments...
...landings in Europe by aircraft linked with the CIA since 9/11 were flights "rendering" suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to countries where torture loosens tongues. The U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch claims that Poland and Romania may have hosted secret interrogation camps, something both countries deny. And the furor only intensified when the initial response of the Bush administration was to neither deny nor confirm the allegations...
Assad is facing an excruciating dilemma. Calming the furor over the regime's suspected involvement in Hariri's death may ultimately require him to turn over his brother and brother-in-law for questioning, a move that could trigger a revolt by their loyalists. For that reason, many Syrians believe that Assad is unlikely to provide investigators with the level of cooperation they demand. But further evidence of Syrian obstruction could give the West the pretext it needs for sanctions that could cripple the regime. It's no surprise that Assad has kept a low profile since the release...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson owes his colleague Michael Brown a big thank-you--and flowers wouldn't be a bad idea either. Back in 2000, Tyson, an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, triggered an international furor when he decreed that in his prestigious establishment Pluto would no longer be listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years...