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Water, iced tea and pink lemon drink became the only beverage options as the electronic soda machines fell prey to the lack of power. Even dining hall workers had to improvise when the conveyor belt that normally carries away students' dirty dishes shut down...
...President Wahid, popularly known as "Gus Dur," commands only 10 percent of the seats in parliament, leaving him easy prey to the political rivals who had previously helped him keep the more popular Megawati Sukarnoputri out of the presidency. In order to defuse popular anger at the time, Wahid had given Megawati the vice presidency, thereby forging a coalition in which his grip on power was always going to be tenuous. Now his rivals are withdrawing their support in what observers believe is mostly a power-play to get rid of an ailing president blasted by his critics for arrogance...
...most insightful parts of The Trouble with Government are those discussing inefficiencies in government. Though Bok sadly falls prey to the modern idolatry of the market, he does identify several points where useful reform is possible. He makes a fairly conclusive case that both legislation and executive regulations are designed less coherently and less skillfully in the United States than in other industrialized democracies. He outlines the reasons for this—our federalist system and bicameral legislature, and the fragmented structure of Congressional committees. He proposes several workable solutions within our framework, most of which boil down to strengthening...
...frosh weekend is most likely the time of the year when the website of the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid sees its heaviest traffic—and a highly inconvenient time for the site to fall prey to the work of a hacker...
...suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized. One suspected cause, an insider told Time: clinical claustrophobia. Like others close to Milosevic, he also feared for his own and his family's safety and may have calculated that he would be better off with the new powers than prey to hired hit teams on the streets of Belgrade. He remains the only ex-official to have been charged but not yet jailed. There are other canaries that may be ready to sing. Last week, Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic said that Rade Markovic, former chief of the security services arrested in February...