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...limit. Another year, they all brought generic gifts and played a dice game to determine who got what--a disaster. This year, for the first time, there will be no gifts among the adults, with one exception. Just as she did last Christmas, Hawton plans to give her parents membership to "Noelle's Soup of the Month Club." Each month, she'll invite them over for a homemade soup dinner. "It gets them out of the house and here spending time with their grandkids," Hawton explains. And it's one way to create memories that last well beyond Christmas...
...course, that's not saying much. Ideas for reforming the Security Council have been debated, and mostly rejected, since the day the organization was founded in 1945. Although membership was expanded in 1965 from 11 to 15, the Council still reflects the balance of power that prevailed after World War II. The club of permanent, veto-wielding Council members has not expanded beyond the original five: the U.S., Russia, France, Britain and China (although the People's Republic replaced Taiwan in the Chinese seat in 1971). In recent years, the Council has come under siege from upstarts...
...might the U.N. be willing to go this time around? In an effort to improve regional representation, the Panyarachun panel came up with two alternatives for changing the Council's composition. The first would expand the permanent membership from five to 11 nations and increase the number elected to rotating terms from 10 to 13. The second proposal would create a middle tier of eight members elected to renewable four-year terms, and add a new two-year term. Under both proposals, the Security Council would grow from 15 to 24 seats. But neither idea grants the new members...
Strahan’s suit says he is filing the action to “protect his right and opportunity of equal access” to the law library. He maintains that the public “enjoys full access” to the library because of its membership in the Federal Depository Library Program, which maintains publicly accessible collections of government documents at member libraries...
...said he will make the HRC “user-friendly” in order to retain the membership, revitalizing the committee structure to get members more involved...