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...President, Alexander Lukashenko, signed a pact with Russia that envisaged eventually replacing the Belarusan ruble with the Russian one and suggested a constitutional change that could allow the formal inclusion of Belarus in the Russian Federation. A decade later, both countries say they still intend to implement the agreement, but the dying days of 2006 saw their once cordial relations deteriorate into a battle of brinkmanship. Moscow warned it would turn off gas supplies unless Belarus agreed to hike the price it paid for the fuel. Belarus countered with a threat to block the pipeline through Belarus that transmits...
...Harvard institutions to move across the Charles River to Allston, according to Harvard’s public plans. It will be the centerpiece of what Hyman hopes to be a “vibrant and interdisciplinary” scientific community. Looking ahead, Hyman says that he will work to implement the recommendations of the University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering, set to be released next month. Hyman says the preliminary proposal for University-wide departments will streamline redundant academic programs in different schools to ensure that they don’t compete with one another...
...leadership needs to implement a mechanism for arranging student services within the UC’s current two-committee framework. It does not need to bring back the CLC, nor does it need another third arm such as an "Outreach and Services Committee"—an idea which was proposed and rejected last spring. We do not know precisely how the UC ought to handle soliciting and selecting bids from third parties. It could be done by the UC’s Finance Committee (FiCom), or by a FiCom subcommittee, or by the president and vice president themselves...
...financial pain those sanctions cause the regime might give the U.S. a measure of leverage, but only to the extent that they can be used as a chip in pursuit of a grand bargain. For the U.S., progress in the talks requires North Korea's moving quickly to implement some practical steps signaling its readiness to give up nuclear weapons - such as suspending its nuclear fuel production at Yongbon and placing its activities once more under international monitoring. But to do that, North Korea wants an end to the "hostile policy...
...commission itself does not imagine that its ideas will be embraced with speedy enthusiasm. "This kind of change," said Tucker, "will take 15 years of hard work to implement." The point, says Klein, is not whether the commission got every detail right, but that the nation needs "a significant reconceptualization." After decades of flawed and piecemeal reform, it's hard to argue with that...