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Over 100 demonstrators gathered yesterday to protest what they said was the University’s apparent lack of response to the anti-layoffs campaign...
...Timing: The Defense Secretary dropped his bombshells at the start of a two-week congressional recess. The lack of lawmakers in Washington muted the outrage that would have exploded had all 535 of them been hanging around the Capitol surrounded by cameras and reporters. Not that that has entirely stopped all the rhetoric, including many critics' bogus claim that Gates is shrinking the overall Defense budget. By canceling the Air Force's prized F-22 fighter, Gates "is willing to sacrifice the lives of American military men and women for the sake of domestic programs favored by President Obama," said...
...spending this week visiting the services' war colleges, trying to convince the future brass that his plan is the right one for the country and the military. He let them know that, so far, his strategy seems to be working. "I've been somewhat surprised, frankly, by the lack of a stronger reaction to the proposals that I've made," he told Air Force students Wednesday. "But I anticipate that the next few weeks will be fairly exciting on the acquisition front...
...Congress as a rubber stamp body. Just as Hu started his social reforms by coming to terms with all the injustices and wrongs of the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jiwei writes that today's leaders in Beijing need to rectify a host of wrongs that Deng committed - namely, the lack of progress on political reforms...
...meeting’s docket, the Dean must submit an official request to the Faculty Council by 9:30 a.m. on Monday, April 20. The deadline for the May 19 meeting is the same time on May 5. Historically, student complaints have centered on the Board’s lack of transparency and the absence of student representation within it. Former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 first proposed that the College review the procedures of the Ad Board in Spring 2007, and Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam convened a small review...