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...comment yesterday. There are currently 63 FAS committees listed on the Secretary of the Faculty’s Web site—but most of those eliminated Wednesday are not even listed on the site. The Faculty Council also moved for one class to count for SAT/UNSAT for the General Education curriculum. This policy will still need to pass a Faculty vote to be implemented, and it will go before the full Faculty next Tuesday. The Council passed a significantly revised Handbook for Students, which includes the minimum SAT Subject Test score of 700 to fulfill the foreign language requirement...
...given the financial climate, college officials said next year they will be more stringent about meeting the general target. In meeting this threshold, McCarty said they hope to be able to cut the total number of sections by 10 percent. In the ’08-’09 academic year, the college had roughly 4,500 sections...
...slightly disconcerting to hear Richard Holbrooke, our very best diplomatic negotiator, deploying words like "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" to describe the recent round of talks with delegations from Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington, during a White House briefing for columnists just after the talks ended. He was flanked by General David Petraeus, who reinforced Holbrooke's message. The talks "exceeded my expectations," the general said. A good deal of this is, obviously, puffery designed to keep the diplomatic balloon aloft. But there was also, I'd guess, some wishful thinking involved...
...everything they can to nudge and puff Zardari and Karzai into being statesmen who occasionally act in their own national interest, as Zardari seems to have done by deciding to fight the Taliban. That is why Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acted with such alacrity to replace a good general, David McKiernan, with another, Stanley McChrystal, better versed in the tactics used to fight terrorist insurgencies. That is why we are in Afghanistan and Pakistan: because our enemies - the people who killed 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001 - are festering there. It would be nice if, unlike Vietnam...
...This is about a ban on degrading games in which killing or injury are simulated," Wolfgang Bosbach, deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) parliamentary faction, tells TIME. "In general, we need tougher gun laws because we have to protect the public from the misuse of weapons, and we also need to take our laws seriously." (See pictures of America's fascination with firearms...