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...year-old Prefect Program will be abolished effective this fall, the new Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere said yesterday in an interview.The program will no longer exist in its present form but will be “morphed into something else,” Rinere said. Rinere, who is just six days into her new post after arriving at Harvard from Princeton University, said the Prefect Program may be replaced with a peer advising system that matches upperclassmen with incoming freshmen the summer before they enter the College. Last night, members of the board of the Prefect Program...
...There is a need for more child-care places, concedes Prime Minister John Howard - particularly in after-school care. But "these generalized calls for a complete revamp of the system - well, I think the present system works reasonably well," he tells Time. "Some people have unreasonable expectations. There are some people out there who basically think that child care shouldn't cost them anything." Howard points out that his government's 30% rebate on child-care fees - introduced in 2004 but paid for the first time only this year - offers parents up to $A4,000 per child each year. Making...
...problem for the public, so they had to come up with a way to get around that and this is their attempt to do so.? The majority of rape victims, she notes, are victims of date rape, and the majority of incest victims are quite young. ?They don?t present themselves at a hospital or doctor?s office to ask for contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy,? she says. ?So I think it?s very disingenuous of him to suggest this is an exception for rape and incest...
...clients, arrested by the Iraqi Interior Ministry's Wolf Brigade paramilitary force last May 12, were beaten with cables, shocked with electricity and had their faces burned with lighted cigarettes to extract confessions (later recanted) for bomb attacks. The four men "alleged too that a U.S. military officer was present at one time in the room in which they were being interrogated," according to the report. Amnesty researchers tell TIME, however, that they don't know if the men also were being tortured when the U.S. officer was present...
LIFTED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; seven days after she assumed emergency powers, stating that the country had faced a "clear and present danger" from groups plotting to oust her; in Manila. The emergency measures, which allowed arrests without warrants, met with heavy opposition from business groups, the Catholic Church, politicians and the President's own economic advisers. "The conspiracy has been broken up and it's time for government to go back to its regular business," Arroyo said in a televised address announcing the lifting of the state of emergency...