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...from reading various published editorials, have expressed dissatisfaction with President Summers’s resignation,” says Rapier. “We have assured our community, however, that President Summers’s agenda was shaped by many individuals at the University and will move ahead largely intact under a new administration.” Pitching this agenda to alums will be the task of Rapier and her administration under the incoming leadership of Bok and recently-appointed Interim Faculty Dean Jeremy R. Knowles. Despite their reputations as prodigious fundraisers, the two men are not expected to focus...
After pulling out of Fallujah, Kilo returned home, but by last summer it was gearing up for another tour in Iraq. The unit remained about 65% intact from the year before. In October it moved as part of a roughly 900-man Marine battalion into Haditha, a Euphrates River--valley farm town that had been in insurgents' hands for half a year. At first, the Marines encountered almost no resistance. According to Read, Kilo took up residence in a municipal building as other Marine companies spread out around town. But over time, the other units were called to duty elsewhere...
...years ago. This phenomenon of nostalgia for the lost east, dubbed Ostalgie, was neatly encapsulated in the 2003 hit film Goodbye Lenin!, a sweet-tempered comedy about a son who protects the feelings of his ailing mother by pretending the Wall is still standing and the G.D.R. is intact. That may be an amusing concept for most cinemagoers. For many east Germans, struggling to find their feet in the new realities of a reunited Germany, and missing the rigid certainties of life in a totalitarian state, it struck a deeper chord. In retrospect the G.D.R. really didn't seem...
...recent weeks Merapi has been showing its uncharitable side. A series of small eruptions has darkened the sky with hot clouds of gas, raining ash on the fields below, and discharging streams of lava down the mountain. By last Saturday, the dome remained intact, but threatened to blow at any time. "We are still at the highest alert status," says Subandrio, director of the Merapi-observation division of Indonesia's Center of Volcanological Research and Technology in Yogyakarta. "An explosion is still very possible...
...that sent the council into a parliamentary tailspin in the first place—never attained the required 37-vote threshold required for a constitutional amendment. When the council voted on 62.35, the constitution still had its “one-half” clause intact. And so next Sunday’s council meeting promises another round of bickering as the council attempts to determine if last meeting’s majority vote for 62.35 means that it actually passed.In the meantime, the UC has real matters of student concern to tend to, and we hope it tends...