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...Lamont Café providing new, alternative hangouts, and with Hilles’s meeting space relieving pressure on Yard common rooms, freshmen already can look forward to more social space than ever before. If McLoughlin and University Hall won’t scrap their plan to handpick the organizations in Yard basements, the least they can do is keep open enough office space to fulfill the needs of those organizations that Hilles can’t serve adequately.Alex Slack ’06, a former Crimson editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate...
...cooperating with the U.S. in the best of times, and if he perceives its objective is to limit the Shi'ites power won at the ballot box, Sistani may push back. It was, after all, pressure from the Ayatollah that originally forced the U.S. to abandon plans to handpick an Iraqi government and instead allow it to be chosen in a democratic election.? And if the Shi'ite political leaders are beginning to turn on the U.S., then Washington may arrive at its planned talks with Tehran needing Iran's help more than it would ever like to admit...
...confirmed the ban. That decision rankles with the millions of Zimbabweans, up to half the voting-age population, living in exile. If ZANU-PF wins - or fixes - a two-thirds majority, it will be able to change the constitution, making it easier for Mugabe to stay on or handpick his successor. "Of course, [Mugabe] doesn't want us to vote," Maseko says. "Most of us have left because of him, so he knows we will vote against him. But in a democratic country, all of us should have the right to choose our leaders...
Most sports select their Olympians through open competitions, but USA Gymnastics has privatized the process, leaving it up to Martha and a two-member selection committee to handpick most of the young women who represent the U.S. It's a controversial system, but the logic is compelling: to win gold medals in gymnastics, you need a Karolyi...
...back one of their own for the new government's most powerful post--Iyad Allawi, a physician and Shi'ite Muslim who is head of the Iraqi National Accord (I.N.A.). By then, Brahimi--who insists his job is to broker a consensus on the new government, not to handpick its members--had little choice but to go along. "Brahimi decided that since this is their choice, he'll work with their decision," says a close aide. "He respects...