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...With other countries in Southeast Asia, too, the new Administration has shown itself willing to question years of received wisdom. While Laura Bush condemned the Burmese junta, the Obama Administration has held relatively high-level talks with the country's leadership - in March, Stephen Blake, the State Department's director of Southeast Asian affairs, met Foreign Minister Nyan Win in Naypyidaw. Condoleezza Rice would skip ASEAN's Regional Forum, and the Bush Administration refused to sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. The treaty is pretty innocuous - it merely pledges signatories to uphold a zone of peace in Southeast...
...signature of the Minister of Finance, as required by the country's Monetary Law, effectively making them fake bills. "These bills are illegal and worthless and should only be used to play Monopoly," says opposition legislative leader Wilfredo Navarro. "President Daniel Ortega is a counterfeiter. That's the level things have gotten to in Nicaragua these days." The lawmaker, a member of the legislature's Economic Commission, says "any serious government" would immediately recognize the error and recall the money. But so far the Sandinistas aren't budging...
...said that FAS administrators might instead decide not to replace retiring professors. “The only way to save money at the level they need to, is to not hire replacement faculty for faculty who leave,” he said. “One full-time senior faculty member costs a lot of money...
...nature and ability to engage and work with all aspects of the orchestra were breathtaking,” said HRO violinist and search committee member Catherine D. Buzney ’09. “He treated us like professionals, demanding that we push ourselves to achieve a new level of muscianship that is challenging but very much within the capability of the HRO.” Cortese, who formerly served as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, said he “understands the dynamics of a student orchestra and how to most effectively work with students...
...energy program, in exchange for a package of political, economic and diplomatic incentives. Even if the U.S. agrees to talk while Iran's centrifuges are spinning, what's less clear is whether Washington and its allies will eventually settle for less than Iran forgoing enrichment altogether, and accept some level of low-grade enrichment being conducted under an expanded inspection regime...