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...with administrators for the past few weeks to convince them to sign on to the project. “The question [with the plan] is the amount of support we’re going to get from the College,” Ragalie said, adding that the UC will implement the plan regardless. His certitude in that regard was corroborated by Vice-President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. “We’re going to keep talking about cheaper textbooks and coursepacks until somebody listens,” Sundquist said. The textbook plan passed unanimously...
Calling a test run of the new plan before the end of the school year “ideal,” Nelson said, “You don’t implement new recommendations overnight.... Why not take another month or two to have it make sense...
...growing number of Hong Kong people feel the time for full democracy is already long past, and that any attempt to delay it is demeaning. Earlier this month, a group of democrats led by Chan unveiled a compromise proposal that would gradually implement universal suffrage. It's hardly a radical blueprint, and it dovetails with Tsang's own target of achieving full democracy by 2012, when his new five-year term will end. The response out of Beijing to Chan's plan, however, was anything but welcoming. Chen Zuo'er, the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs...
...TIME: You sound like a natural politician. Wouldn't you welcome full democracy and direct election for Chief Executive? TSANG: Certainly I would welcome that, and our constitution allows it ... In 2005 I tried to [implement] constitutional reform. I did not succeed, not because people didn't want it. People wanted it; there was majority support for it. But there were some bloody-minded politicians who wouldn't allow it through in the Legislative Council-against the people's wishes. But I'm not giving up ... This summer, based on [all] the various proposals I have received, I'm going...
Barry Kane, who is registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), said at yesterday’s meeting that his office might be able to implement the change as soon as this spring...