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...clearly spent a great deal of time thinking how best to devise a way to provide money to students for social events that both is practical and responds to concerns administrators have expressed in the past. The longer administrators and House Masters continue to slow down the implementation of SIP, the longer students will continue turning to unsupervised parties in their suites while College social life suffers. With several significant precautions in place, it is time for administrators to concede that, though there may always be underage drinking, the SIP program is worthy of their approval...
...more people are beginning to feel empowered to take the fight for their rights into their own hands, and I believe we will see them confront their legislators face-to-face with greater frequency and urgency. I believe that is the type of confrontation that will emerge - people no longer willing to sit idly by and leave the fight for their rights in the hands of lobbyists and special-interest groups...
...state solution, and press the two sides to accept it. Daniel Levy, an Israeli peace negotiator at Camp David now based at Washington's New America Foundation, says the reason the Obama Administration fared badly is that the underlying assumptions of the peace process are no longer valid. "The political factors that make it impossible for Netanyahu to accept the settlement freeze also make it highly unlikely that he could conclude a deal acceptable to the Palestinians," says Levy. "And the reasons for Abbas not being able to negotiate without conditions underscore just how limited his own room for maneuver...
...shaped by the composition of the next government. The Kurds have played a kingmaking role in the democratic process since Saddam's ouster, but their backing for the Shi'ite-dominated al-Maliki government in 2005 did little to cement Kurdish territorial claims. But now that Sunni Arabs no longer boycott elections, Kurdish parliamentary influence will be diminished. Indeed, stiffening resistance to Kurdish political demands could be a key point of consensus in any Sunni-Shi'ite political alliance that emerges after the elections - and that could make Kirkuk's relative stability a thing of the past...
...news about the global recession's potentially coming to an end: the recovery could spark a massive energy crisis with increased demand for fossil fuels from China and other developing countries, tighter oil supplies and skyrocketing oil prices. And this is just in the near future. The longer-term picture looks even more daunting. If the world continues to guzzle oil and gas at its present pace, global temperatures will rise by an average of 6°C by 2030, causing "irreparable damage to the planet...