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...Music and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) departments are two exceptions, but their troubles also reveal a fundamental lack of institutional support. Constrained by its meager building, the Music Department has little room for instruction in performance techniques, much less room to expand to meet growing demand—Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 says there are “much greater resources in student talent than in practice rooms [and] professionals.” And although VES routinely hires visiting professors—often-prominent film directors, painters and photographers?...
...subsidies for renewable energy and stronger standards for vehicle efficiency, the U.S. could be independent of foreign oil by 2015—and not a moment too soon. However, there is no indication that the federal government is taking these alternatives seriously. The Federal Budget for 2004 allocates a meager $1 billion towards hydrogen fuel cell research, yet vehicle fuel efficiency standards have hardly moved—from 20.7 miles per gallon for an average sedan to 22 miles per gallon. This pork barreling in advanced science is not going to effect the major changes needed...
...success will last. Kirkuk is far from the only city in Iraq to have a looting problem. But its multiethnic character lends a much greater possibility of greater violence. The Americans delegated responsibility for the city to the Kurdish forces that stormed the city Thursday morning, chasing out the meager Iraqi forces without a fight. But within hours Kurds from the far northern cities of Erbil and Suleymaniya were streaming into the city with empty pickup trucks. In some places the Peshmerga Kurdish forces were vainly trying to stop the looting, while they actively participated in others. Arab and Turkish...
...targets in Baghdad, the early bombardment had staggered the Iraqi regime, cutting it off from its field commanders, Pentagon officials asserted, and leaving much of its undermanned, underfed army on its own in the face of the allied onslaught. That may explain why U.S. and British troops encountered meager resistance as they pushed toward the oil-rich southern Iraqi city of Basra. One day into the ground war, allied forces secured the town of Safwan and the port city of Umm Qasr; Marines seized two vital oil fields that Saddam's forces may have been preparing to set ablaze. Iraqi...
While some pro-choice student group members fear that the opt-out will harmfully threaten the existence of abortion services, the meager $1.09 from each of 101 students—the most that have ever opted out of this charge—is unlikely to impact the affordability of this service. The problem with the opt-out stipulation is that it is patently unfair and inherently favors a pro-life stance over other moral concerns...