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What's worse, most of the Third World countries that accept the waste are even less adequately prepared to deal with it than the nations that send it. Without sophisticated facilities to dispose of the waste properly, it often contaminates the water supply and the surrounding land...
...Require the appointed people to follow-up on every action the council requests. Too often good ideas approved by the council die because the chair "forgets" to write a letter. There should be a list of requests, which is constantly updated as each is taken care of or as new requests are added. At the beginning of each meeting, ask the responsible officers what they did for the council over the past week. If they did nothing, embarass them publicly...
...Appoint a council researcher historian. The council often debates issues endlessly without any clue about what precedent has been set by previous councils. The council debated ROTC for two weeks, and no one ever mentioned that the Harvard student government had already declared a position on ROTC in 1982--mostly because no one knew. The "historian" (a work-study job) should have a few days before each debate to prepare an information packet for council members on the upcoming topic. The result would be a better informed council...
...There's no denying that whites spread diseases and caused mass genocides," said Ian Brown, the head curator of the museum. "Yet at the same time Indians were no passive reactors, often they would adapt creatively...
...power, and notabove using any means to attain it (Demos, p.68).When society evaluated the accused witches, theissue of power was central; their particularsituation of lacking power was magnified by thefact that "respectable women of middle age had agreat deal of power in the Salem society. These"respectable" women often held high socialpositions in the church, organized own socialevents, and cared for their many children. Thesewomen were often the accusers: they were perhapsable to best perceive the lack of power of the saidwitches...