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...with a background in business, is Oxford's first vice-chancellor to be chosen from outside the University. In late 2006, when he proposed giving lay members a slim majority on a new governing council responsible for non-academic matters, the idea was turned down by the Congregation, the parliament of Oxford dons. In the scramble to catch up with wealthier U.S. colleges, the dons' power could discourage potential benefactors. "A governing body dominated by academic members of a university," says Philip Harding, chairman of the British Universities Finance Directors Group, "will probably be less attractive to a major donor...
...decade now, by executive order, a stretch of road between Jantar Mantar and Parliament Street is the officially designated protest space in India's capital - all others are off limits. As a result, Jantar Mantar offers a rich daily marketplace of grievances, ranging from tribes demanding compensation for lost land and farmers seeking better prices for their produce to demands for women's and gay-rights, and everything in between...
...Anwar scandal could divert attention from the trial of Najib's ex-aide, at the same time weakening the campaign against Abdullah. Anwar recently said the opposition needs only 28 members of parliament to defect from the ruling coalition in order for the opposition to take power. He has been aggressively courting crossovers among political representatives from the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, which are among Malaysia's poorest despite plentiful natural resources...
...which houses an estimated 3 million people was easily Iraq's most devastated locale during the seven weeks of fighting that wracked the area as U.S.-backed government forces confronted the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. According to Nasser Hashem al-Saadi, a member of parliament aligned with al-Sadr, some 25,000 residents fled the area during that time...
...Saadi moves through the neighborhood, men and women approach him, pleading with him to bring help, and to take their cases before parliament. "People expect a lot from me because I'm from this area," says Saadi. "What is the fault of all these people? What have they done to warrant this bombing? Of course I'm under pressure to do something about...