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...current crisis was fueled by a single act of what the AKP's opponents consider to be political capriciousness. The government abandoned a much-needed overhaul of the country's constitution - a problematic document drafted by generals after the 1980 military coup - on which a broad coalition of academics and NGOs had been working. Instead, led by fiery Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, MPs pushed through just a single constitutional amendment: one that would lift the ban on headscarves in universities...
...announced a plan to overhaul the entire air-traffic-control system. Four years later, nothing had been done. "The air-traffic system is overloaded," declared Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota. It was the fall of 1985 when he demanded that the FAA begin dealing with the atc dinosaur. But he would fail to hold the agency's feet to the fire, and his House Aviation Subcommittee would allow the FAA to waste hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade of time...
...Craigslist has announced a few foreign language local sites abroad, but is in no rush to overhaul its overall look and feel. "Craigslist as you see it today is the result of millions of suggestions received from tens of millions of users, and the features you see are those which Craigslist users have asked for," says Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist CEO. Buckmaster says that the company is less concerned with competition and growing marketshare than it is with serving its existing users. "We're simply trying to follow through on feedback received from our users," he adds. As sites like Kijiji...
4/10/08: The University announces a $1 billion overhaul of undergraduate Houses over 15 years—a charming gift to the departing Class...
...Some professors say that the College needed to overhaul its curriculum because students were frustrated: both with limited choices and a proliferation of seemingly irrelevant Core classes...