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...Girls Club. And the idea has quickly spread beyond Salt Lake City to about a dozen other cities around the country, from Oregon to Maryland. Each program is run independently. Some target kids with reading troubles; others are open to all comers. The dog handlers may serve as ad hoc tutors or simply lend a sympathetic ear. All the programs are run on the cheap by volunteers from local animal-therapy groups, and it's not unusual for the handlers to dig into their own pockets to buy books, bookmarks and souvenirs for graduates. In every location, says Martin...
Last May, after meeting with concerned students, Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles agreed to form an ad hoc energy task force to be led by longtime campus environmentalist Lawrence Professor of Engineering Fred H. Abernathy...
...Staff choose for such an important task? And if the fact that Israel is the target of the inquiry particularly troubles the Staff, why should Israel be evaluated by a different organization than other nations? The United Nations is imperfect, as are all institutions, but creating an ad hoc commission packed with Israel’s allies would hardly allow a legitimate investigation...
...hoc tribunals exist and function for very different reasons than those underpinning the ICC. They are instruments of powerful nations for imposing a solution to a limited and particular problem. The Nuremburg trials and the Rwandan and Yugoslav war crimes tribunals are all attempts by strong nations to impose some sort of settlement on an unresolved, horrific injustice that moved the strong nations to outrage. It is the force and motivation sparked by this outrage that enables them to function in the absence of laws, procedures, and institutions for enforcing “international justice...
...Undergraduate Advisory Committee on the Appointment of the New Dean of FAS—an ad hoc committee of seven members appointed by the Undergraduate Council two weeks ago—plans to present University President Lawrence H. Summers with a three-to-five-page letter next Wednesday...