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...Monday's meeting, Senior Advisory Committee Chair John C. Culver announced that former Arkansas Senator David H. Pryor would be the next director of the IOP, giving students an opportunity to highlight their concerns as the IOP enters a transitional period...
...ites. Far from fixating on Islamic law, Hizballah's representatives in parliament have busied themselves winning funding for projects that will benefit their constituents. One recent morning, as Hizballah fighters were launching attacks on Israeli outposts in southern Lebanon, a Hizballah M.P. was walking Lebanese journalists around Beirut to highlight the more mundane problem of potholes. Says Mohammed Baydoun, an M.P. for Amal, a rival Shi'ite party: "They are pragmatic. They understand the political game...
...Charlotte, bowed to pressure from the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ended a half-year tryout in which 55 of 335 of Parkwood's eighth graders were separated by gender into two different classes. The ACLU claimed the exercise, which school officials hoped would highlight any intellectual benefits of segregating adolescents by gender, was discriminatory toward the girls involved; in their argument against the separation, the civil rights group cited a 1972 law banning sexual discrimination at federally funded schools...
Smith's promotional announcement for Har'd CORPS--a day of community service coordinated with similar events at the seven other Ivy League schools--was the highlight of a council meeting that literally had nothing on the docket...
...already have gotten Greenspan's message. "Remember, the latest numbers are already out of date," says Baumohl. "Many analysts believe the economy is already slowing to a growth rate closer to 3.5 percent as the effects of the rate hikes since last June are felt." But the new numbers highlight a growing debate among economists over whether the rules of the economy have changed. While the Fed remains wedded to the orthodoxy that growth above 3.5 percent must eventually spawn inflation, a number of other economists believe that productivity increases brought on by the new high-tech economy have fundamentally...