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...president interjected at one point, calling on professors to vote on Burgard’s amendment to the amendment. “Whatever you do is fine with me.” Summers also cracked jokes and appeared to be in a good mood as the curricular review, which began in the second year of his tenure but never followed his fast-paced schedule, was set to finally see its first vote. After Wilfried Schmid, the Robinson professor of mathematics, said that because the words “such as” appeared in an explanatory note to the secondary...
Summers also cracked jokes and appeared to be in a good mood as the curricular review, which began in the second year of his tenure but never followed his fast-paced schedule, was set to finally see its first vote...
...Mindful of Sunni concerns and the danger of sectarian warfare, the U.S. has begun to act against Shi'ite militias, particularly those accused of abuses. But the Shi'ite leaders see the militias as their best defense against the Sunni insurgents, and are not in any mood to disband them. In the wake of last weekend's controversial joint U.S.-Iraqi hostage rescue, Shi'ite politicians briefly broke off talks over a new government; they claimed the raid was a massacre of innocent civilians praying at a mosque, while the U.S. and Iraqi commanders said it wasn't a mosque...
...used the escalating standoff over Iran's nuclear program as a platform for broadening his appeal at home, framing the West as an enemy bent on weakening Iran by denying it legitimate access to technology. Indeed, many observers believe that Ahmadinejad is reacting to the masses' increasingly assertive mood as much as he is stoking it. "Before, you had people vs. the regime," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "Now you have Iran vs. the West...
Israelis love plastering bumper stickers on their cars. Political slogans, catchy phrases and jokes all act as a gauge of the driver?s often cranky mood. So what are Israelis thinking about tomorrow?s parliamentary elections for the 120-seat Knesset? Judging from the glaring lack of bumper space Israelis seem to be dedicating to the race, not a whole...