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...sorts of multilateral, institution-building initiatives that come naturally to close neighbors heavily invested in the long march of European union. Mainly because of Republican opposition, Washington owes back dues of some $1.65 billion to the U.N. and has shrunk its development aid to 0.11% of gdp, about one-third of the rich-country average, despite record U.S. budget surpluses. It has stayed outside many important recent treaties that Europe endorses: the land mine convention, the International Criminal Court, the comprehensive test ban-and Bush sees no reason to change any of that. U.S. opposition scuppered recent efforts...
...undergraduates not receiving adequate concentration advising? Currently, advising is abominable in the larger concentrations such as government and economics--in the Government Department, only one-third of the concentrators have actually met with an advisor to discuss course selection. How are these departments planning to change, and what will the administration do to encourage them...
...also a teaching fellow for Computer Science 244: "Advanced Network Design Projects." According to Vernal, the FAS network is connected to the outside world via a single 100mbps (megabits-per-second) pipe. Each of the network's 12,000 connections shares this bandwidth. Says Vernal: "If one-third of the undergraduate population was using the FAS network at the same time, each student would be connected at the speed of a 56.6kbps modem." That's the connection speed you'd expect of your mom's AOL connection, not of a prestigious academic institution...
These deviations from policy are not mere loopholes or bureaucratic inconveniences; they threaten campus health by making students far less likely to seek medical attention from UHS when they need it. Indeed, according to a poll conducted by The Crimson last month, almost one-third of undergraduates think they are "likely" or "very likely" to be disciplined by the administration if they are admitted to UHS for an alcohol-related illness...
When the lights went out in California last month, cash registers rang up north. In one critical 24-hour period on Jan. 18, British Columbia Hydro supplied more than one-third of the power desperate Californians needed to stave off a statewide blackout. The rescue didn't come cheap: the utility may have earned $3 million from the deal. "It's been a windfall," admits B.C. Hydro spokesman Wayne Cousins...