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...asked for a number of changes to his plan, including more trees. A revised version to be unveiled this week will have greenery added by Peter Walker, a well-known landscape architect. But from the moment eight finalists in the competition were announced in November, public response has been lukewarm at best. All came from what might be called the therapeutic school of memorial design. They spoke a language of serenity and simplicity, consoling but minor key, inadequate to the power of the event they were marking. Every one of them sought to heal the pain of 9/11. None...
...just over a year. Freedom, for Some ZIMBABWE A Harare court released 52 activists two days after their arrests for taking part in demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe. A call by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions for a two-day strike to protest the arrests had elicited a lukewarm response. More than 30 of the original demonstrators remained in detention. Archive: Zimbabwe in TIME Time To Talk SRI LANKA A joint committee set up by President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should work out new power-sharing arrangements by Dec. 15, Kumaratunga's spokesman announced...
Past outreaches certainly left some room for improvement, but just because students gave an event a lukewarm review is no reason to eliminate it entirely. The FDO should have worked with the groups rather than around them. Improving the quality of outreaches requires a coordinated effort of peer groups, other campus mental health resources and the FDO. Together they should reintroduce an improved mandatory peer counseling outreach for first-years at the start of the coming spring semester or for the class of 2008 next fall...
...then grudgingly welcomed its formation, but the council pointedly refused to endorse its legitimacy. The U.S. is genuinely trying to shift power to the Iraqis and establish Iraq's first truly democratic institutions. And yet the Security Council that accepted without question the legitimacy of the Saddam thugocracy gives lukewarm, hands-off treatment to the most representative Iraqi delegation ever to address that august body...
...then grudgingly welcomed its formation, but the council pointedly refused to endorse its legitimacy. The U.S. is genuinely trying to shift power to the Iraqis and establish Iraq's first truly democratic institutions. And yet the Security Council that accepted without question the legitimacy of the Saddam thugocracy gives lukewarm, hands-off treatment to the most representative Iraqi delegation ever to address that august body...