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...what it wants: legitimacy as an armed state-within-a-state. The opposition will now have enough ministers in the Lebanese cabinet to veto any major decisions, effectively ending any attempt to move against Hizballah's weapons. It also calls for parliament to elect a consensus candidate, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman, to the country's presidency, which has been vacant for months. The government had been hoping to elect one of its own, since it controls a majority in parliament...
...Pelosi may not get much more warmth from the American military leaders she plans to meet either. Pelosi argued against sending additional surge forces to Iraq, a plan overseen by Gen. David Petraeus that is now widely credited with reducing the levels of violence in Iraq...
Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding and Culture and Belief—the two categories in Gen Ed that are closest to the humanities—were added to the program late in the curriculum’s five-year review...
Even though Harvard’s humanists are out-performing their peers in other disciplines in getting Gen Ed classes approved, professors said they still worry about whether the humanities will have a significant place in the program...
...think that’d be a real shame if that was the only humanities category,” said Gen Ed committee member Alexander N. Chase-Levenson ’08, a History and Literature concentrator in Winthrop House...