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...first letter, from Bonn to Moscow, will state that German aspirations toward eventual peaceful reunification are not contradictory to the spirit or intent of the new treaty. The second, from Bonn to the Allies, which the Soviets will formally acknowledge, will declare that the Bonn-Moscow agreement does not prejudice Allied rights in Germany, including Berlin, nor does it preclude an eventual peace treaty that could allow a reunification of East and West Germany. On both points, the Soviets acceded to Bonn's demands...
...Except for one dramatic shift (which I will get to shortly), the new rankings don't look much different from previous lists, despite the recent organized rebellion against the magazine's long-criticized method of pitting school against school. So far this year, 62 college presidents have signed a letter pledging to stop filling out the U.S. News reputational survey, which accounts for 25% of a school's overall score...
Meanwhile, California's cash-strapped state legislature is debating whether to approve Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to start allocating tuition-assistance funds to help boost membership in the 20,000-strong California Guard. Democratic state senator Lou Correa sent a letter to his colleagues this summer urging them to fund the additional benefits for Guard members. "A lot of these guys are losing their jobs, their houses, their cars because they're being called back to Iraq for a third time," Correa says. "Would we try to deny tuition assistance to World War II veterans? What's the difference...
...Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, one of 32 Nobel laureates who signed Dershowitz' petition, said he thought that Faust's writing a letter meant more than simply signing a statement composed by someone else...
...Still, Harvard Students for Israel said in an e-mailed statement that the group would like to see Faust sign the petition. Terming the proposed boycott "a blatant attack on intellectual freedom," the group called Faust's letter a "first step...