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...last week. The Bundestag is expected to approve the troops measure in May. Europe's parliamentary debates feel a world away from Dubie, where the battle is focused on daily survival rather than on the country's political future. "People want roads reconstructed and land to dig," says Jan Peter Stellema, msf's relief coordinator in Dubie. "That is not much to ask. They are not asking for a TV set." And until roads are built and fields plowed, he hopes enough food will arrive in Dubie. If not, many more graves will soon be dug on the edge...
...Steve Harris, GM vice president of communications, insists Wagoner's job is not in any jeopardy. "A lot of very difficult things have been accomplished in a short period of time," Harris says. Not everyone agrees, of course. Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, said the $10.6 billion loss GM posted for 2005 suggests the company needs new leadership. "GM needs a less expensive and more flexible labor contract, less overhead and red tape in marketing and design, brands realigned to attainable markets and a CEO who can convince employees...
Chaos once again broke out in the realm of academia last month after Science, a leading scientific journal, refused to publish an article that dismissed the theory of psychological equivalence between men and women. Peter A. Lawrence, a biologist and fellow of the Royal Society, authored the controversial article, arguing the hardly astonishing point that “men and women are born different.” Big mistake...
Again, I will retreat a bit and qualify: most of the qualms I have with the science and math Cores I’ve taken are basically bureaucratic in nature. I actually loved the lectures in my Quantitative Reasoning Core (Peter Ellison’s “Counting People”), and I was happy to absorb what I could of my Science A (again, the contrarian in me decided to protest the Core, and so I took Earth and Planetary Sciences 5, which was fascinating, but you can only imagine how well that midterm went...
...during a grenade attack on her helicopter, appeared to have eked out a primary victory over her challenger, tech entrepreneur and two-time candidate Christine Cegelis, by garnering 44% of the vote to Cegelis's 40%. Duckworth will now face a high-stakes fall race against conservative state Sen. Peter Roskam, who himself has had big names like Vice President Dick Cheney helping him amass a war chest topping $1 million...