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...safely accommodated in their own hostels "cordoned off with a razor-wire fence" and guarded by watchmen. In Washington last Wednesday, Zimbabwe's human-rights record dominated a congressional human-rights hearing held by the Committee on International Relations. "The Mugabe regime takes what excess foreign exchange it can obtain and it uses [it] to open new camps," said Congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the subcommittee on Africa, who says he will now ask the Zimbabwean government for access to the camps. Two weeks ago, not long after the State Department released its annual human-rights report, which condemned Zimbabwe...
...political action committee is currently working to pass a bill through the State House that will allow immigrant workers to obtain driver’s licenses, according to Bartley, but it also takes part in national politics...
...graduate students who want to take Harvard courses must obtain signatures from the Harvard and MIT Registrars, an MIT faculty adviser or registration officer and the instructors of the courses they are interested in taking...
...although researchers may obtain Melton’s stem cells for free, they must still obtain private sources of money to do their experiments—perhaps the biggest obstacle in performing stem cell research, according to Helen M. Blau, director of Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine...
...Skinner, who is quite dead. In life, he was a faculty member of this fine institution, and it was probably not his intention that students here would have to pay publishing fees for copies of his works. And Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker has managed to obtain a special waiver of royalties and publishers’ fees for the reprints of his own book used in the sourcebook for his class, this agreement only holds because he is the instructor and it doesn’t give him power over fees for other classes, let alone at other...