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...appointments come at an important moment for FAS, as professors and administrators get to work on an overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum, and plan to expand the Faculty by 10 percent over the next decade...
...contrary to European norms, they can be executed. More than 200 M.P.s from all parties have signed a motion calling on the British inmates at Guantánamo to be sent home for trial. Others think the tribunals could be made to work, but only with a major overhaul. Says Michael Ancram, the Conservative shadow foreign secretary: "The defendants must have their rights respected. The charges they face must be clear, and they must have the right to proper representation." Matthias Kelly, chairman of the Bar Council of England and Wales, warned the U.S. not to "demean democracy by descending...
Dumb ideas never suffer a bear market on Wall Street. And one of the most durable of all dumb business ideas is the notion that investors have to overhaul their portfolios every time Congress tinkers with the tax laws. Now that the Job and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 has reduced the maximum tax rate on dividends from 38.6% to 15%, Wall Street is flogging dividend-paying stocks as if they were the best way to pump up performance since Viagra...
...increasingly heated topic of debate. Many see Hu's actions over the past three months as cause for hope that he's a reformer likely to initiate large-scale change. Optimists point to his decree that the SARS crisis be handled openly, and to the government's steps to overhaul its notoriously brutal system of extrajudicial detention. But so far Hu has governed by the book?and there's little evidence he'll do otherwise...
China's leadership is drafting an overhaul of its communist-era constitution that would include guarantees of private-property rights. But freedom of the press will probably not be part of any charter-reform package. In its latest attempt to rein in the country's increasingly boisterous media, the Party's Publicity Department?formerly the Ministry of Propaganda?this month ordered the closure of the Beijing New Times newspaper after it ran an article criticizing China's congress. The department also forbade coverage of other sensitive topics, including Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the government's cover...