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...scope and efficiency of the UC. Although some members say they are disappointed by the extent of the changes to the College administration, which fell short of some of the overhauls proposed by Dowling, UC President Andrea R. Flores ‘10 says she believes the reforms will move the UC and the administration in the right direction.“We’re not going to ask them to do the exact things in Dowling,” she says. “There have been basic improvements.”INTERNAL REFORMIn May, the UC passed...
Holder, who called the state secrets move an important step toward rebuilding the public's trust in the governments use of this privilege, laid out the new guidelines in a four-page memo specifying that state secrecy would only be invoked when genuine or significant harm to national defense or foreign relations is at stake. Danielle Brian, executive director of the non-partisan watchdog Project on Government Oversight, called the state secrets privilege an executive branch abuse that really needed to be curtailed, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a liberal Democrat, said he was pleased with the Administration...
...tried to tackle the problem during her stint as chairwoman of the Senate's Small Business Committee, but she got nowhere. "We had a debate for a week on the floor back in 2006 for small-business health-insurance legislation," she says. "We never could reach a consensus and move beyond the barriers that had developed on both sides of the political aisle." Snowe now says that effort was a "formative event" in her approach to health-care policy - which no doubt explains why Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus made sure that what she wanted back then has been resurrected...
...French-speaking part to France. In an attempt to defuse the tension between the countries as well as to win the release of the two Swiss nationals being held in Libya, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz traveled to Tripoli in August to apologize for Hannibal's arrest. The move was highly criticized in Switzerland, with repeated calls for his resignation. (See pictures of the rise of Muammar Gaddafi...
...there any place in America that you have always wanted to see? America is so afraid of terror and terrorism to the point that they don't allow people to move around freely and see what they wish to see. I really wish to see the whole of America, if it is possible...