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...adopted in 1991, that integrated the energy sectors of the former East Bloc into Europe. Russia has sought to "ensure that the Energy Charter ceases to be the basis for the energy dialogue between the E.U. and Russia in the future, and to emphasize the need for new ad hoc arrangements in the format proposed by Russia," says Dmitry Orlov, head of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications, a Moscow-based think tank. During the talks, Medvedev reiterated that Russia would not participate in the current version of the document. Because of Medvedev's steadfastness, Orlov believes...
...Affairs Committee—to five. The Finance Committee will still exist, but some responsibilities will be delegated to other committees. The Student Affairs Committee will be split into the Student Life Committee and the Education Committee. The Student Relations Committee—which was created as an ad hoc committee in the first piece of legislation this semester—will also be institutionalized. A Student Initiatives Committee will also be formed to run programs such as UC TKTS, which raffles off free tickets every week to campus and local events. “The most significant change...
...Club’s “office” at 15 Linden Street and you will find a bevy of skis, snowshoes, antlers, bicycles, and ice axes lining the walls, kayaks and canoes hanging from the ceiling, and a sign above the door that reads “HOC All Welcome” next to a painting of a moose with a halo.This image seems particularly appropriate for a group that worships the outdoors. Incoming President Rebecca R. Hersher ’11 says, “If you’ve never summited a mountain before it?...
...Henry James. He will be wholly unfamiliar with John Stuart Mill or Bertrand Russell. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus might as well be Plato or Aristotle—that is to say, Greek. This newspaper reported last Thursday that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris informed an ad hoc committee deliberating the addition of a Great Books element to the new Program for General Education that the plan was on hold due to the financial crisis...
...study by admitting that there exists a canon and that it is worth knowing. The administration’s decision to frustrate efforts to incorporate Great Books into the undergraduate curriculum suggests that the school has decided against changing the Core in any meaningful way. Dispirited, the ad hoc committee that was considering the issue, led by forward-thinking Professors David Armitage and Marjorie Garber, will no longer even meet. By framing the debate around Gen Ed in fundamentally semantic terms (look above at the main fruits of a ponderously lengthy curricular review!), the faculty has forfeited the right...