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...next step on the path back to democracy is the Aug. 19 vote on the draft constitution. Hoping to encourage people to cast their ballots on Sunday, the junta has designated the following Monday a national holiday. But the generals didn't foresee a rather unfortunate scheduling conflict: Aug. 19 happens to be the very day when Thaksin's team hosts its crosstown foe, Manchester United - a match that will be available on cable in Thailand. Thai soccer fans won't want to miss the game, especially given how popular United is in Southeast Asia. No points for guessing which...
...Monday, a chapter was closed in the social history of New York City: a great dame, the arbiter of New York society, died without leaving any successors. Brooke Astor, who passed away at age 105, was a combination of the Victorian age, with all its wit and elegance, and of the modern era, with its sharp-minded determination. She had taste, discernment, character, compassion, and was extraordinarily generous. She ran a great salon where the meek and the mighty met as equals. She had a profound respect for democracy and believed, as I do, that democracy and excellence...
...expressed my conviction that such a move subverts the academic values and freedoms necessary to the free flow of ideas," Faust said in a statement on Monday. "[A]cademics should be promoting, not undermining, the fullest possible collaboration with Israeli universities as well as other universities in the Middle East and elsewhere...
David Pilbeam, the veteran Harvard administrator who last spring took the helm of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences while its leader was ailing, will serve as interim dean of Harvard College, Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith announced Monday...
Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith sent the following e-mail to Harvard College affiliates on Monday...