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Yesterday’s meeting did not end with any concrete resolutions or changes to the proposed benefits plan, and several task force members said they were dissatisfied with the lack of progress...
...best science is often done at the interface of disciplines,” said Stephanie Shore, a senior lecturer in physiology at the school, who said that nearly half of her colleagues work over three miles away at the Landmark Center. “You often make progress in science not so much by staying in your own laboratory, in doing what you always do, but by talking to other people who know different things than...
...stars of this revival: it has held elections regularly since independence in 1963, its economy grew 6.4% in 2007, and it has been a stable exception to turmoil in East Africa. But the outbreak of violence there following last month's presidential elections threatens that progress. A potential implosion in Kenya is especially worrying to the U.S. because the White House sees it as a frontline state in the war on terrorism, a bulwark against its volatile, jihadi-infested neighbor Somalia. Terrorists have occasionally slipped across Kenya's border, as in 1998, when al-Qaeda simultaneously bombed the U.S. embassies...
...decision by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of FAS, to cancel the January meeting. FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said he was unconcerned with the delay. “The lack of a Faculty Meeting in January won’t impair our forward progress,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We will be able to get all of our current docket items onto the Feb. agenda.” Professors have already been given the option of allowing their students to evaluate courses after final exams, according to FAS Registrar...
...rooted her message of experience not in her work in the Senate, or her legal career, or her passion for progress on a few core issues, but on the royal "we" of the Clinton presidency. She was a part of everything, she insists, from health care to foreign policy. To drive the point home, her campaign sent former President Clinton out virtually full-time on the campaign trail across Iowa and New Hampshire. The signature photograph from the Clinton campaign on the day the Iowa caucuses fired the starting gun of the 2008 campaign was not Senator Clinton engaging with...