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...strong and formal commitment to ethnic studies. It is unfair that students currently interested in ethnic studies have no tutorials to learn its methodology, no coordinated advising, no set curriculum and a limited selection of disconnected courses. To address these problems, several principal changes must be made. The ad-hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies should be elevated to a standing committee. A Latino and Latin American Studies, Native-American studies and an Asian-American studies department should each be created. And the University should develop greater curricular diversity in areas studies, which concentrate on regions outside the U.S. For example...
Orchard recently formed an ad hoc committee to research the “spectrum of considerations” in using the Paramount Theater...
...effort thus far has yielded an almost heartwarming level of cooperation among security agencies known for being fiercely territorial. The Secret Service may be calling the shots, but more than 60 federal, state and local organizations are working together in Salt Lake City, and ad hoc multi-agency task forces with heavy-duty acronyms--the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command (UOPSC), the Olympic Joint Terrorism Task Force (OJTTF)--are thick on the ground. More than 15,000 federal, state and local personnel will watch over the Games, among them 1,900 members of Utah's National Guard--the largest single...
...surveillance powers. The ability to spot new disease outbreaks, diagnose them properly and get word out on the medical wires is central to managing crises like anthrax as well as more routine problems like Lyme disease, tuberculosis and the flu. Emergency rooms often perform this function in an ad hoc way; the emergence of West Nile virus in New York City was first detected by a hospital physician who was suspicious of two cases of encephalitis among her patients and prodded the city health department to launch an investigation. The CDC relies on a national network of sentinel doctors...
...liberally interpreted. Though al Qaeda fighters do not automatically gain prisoner of war status under the standards of the convention, the United States should officially recognize them as POWs and treat them accordingly. The United States cannot decide to abide by international standards of humane treatment on an ad hoc basis...