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...process for appeals, which is as yet unclear at Harvard. There’s an important issue of academic integrity at the core of this problem. Harvard is not Verizon. Values other than maximizing shareholder value ought to hold sway in the University environment. Universities should make it plain how a student can assert a defense. Universities ought to support their students in cases like Slater?...
...propose how a constitution might be drafted by December. After the document was written, it would be ratified in a referendum, and only then would a sovereign Iraqi government be elected. The whole process could have taken up to four years. In recent weeks, however, it had become plain that the council would not meet the December deadline, which had been enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution. "They got things built into an impasse. They basically said to us, 'Help us get out of this,'" Bremer told TIME last week. "We understood the desire for them to have sovereignty...
...yield to his pain--to the memory of past mistakes, the implacable fury of the daughter he deserted--yet you feel it in his every movement. As for Blanchett, she's simply wonderful. She has played her share of queenly figures, but her acting essence is, emotionally speaking, plain-Jane. She's a straight shooter, with an uncanny ability to find a character's spine and communicate it without fuss or feathers...
...district, next to the house U.S. forces bombed back in April in the belief that Saddam was hiding there. Happily, the restaurant emerged unscathed. Sa'ah serves pan-style pizzas ($2.50 for a large pie) that have plenty of cheese but seemingly no tomato paste. "This one's too plain," says Sergeant Tolo Gbassage, 23, taking a break from his duties at an American military checkpoint. "They never put enough tomato sauce on these things." But Hamid Abdul Latif, 50, a clerk in the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, appreciates the unadorned flavor. "I like it plain," he says, "but that...
...microscope of public attention—is already focused on other matters. The surprise of Sept. 11 exposed a national weakness in our failure to recognize serious matters unfolding in the world around us. Now, with the dangers of the new world not hidden but rather in plain view, the cost of distraction is higher than ever...