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Unlike students like Gellis and Bolotin, students whom the school requires to withdraw are not allowed to remain “in good standing” with the college, or do what they please with their year off. They must follow Ad Board protocol and hold down a full-time job for six months. After that, they are allowed to petition the Ad Board for re-entrance...
...flow of the ocean.” Yet it must be possible to control the Internet in some way. Currently an American company known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) handles many aspects of Internet governance. It controls the assignment of domain names, Internet Protocol numbers, and country specific extensions (like .ca for Canada and .de for Germany). ICANN was founded in 1998 by the Clinton administration and operates, at least in theory, free from the interference of the U.S. government, although ICANN does have a “memorandum of understanding” with...
...According to Sands, members of the Bush administration have divided international treaties that the U.S. had helped to create into ¨good and bad.” The World Trade Organization and other monetary and patent agreements are “good.” The Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court and certain war conventions are “bad”— deemed “threats to American sovereignty” by organizations like the New American Century. “For these people,” he said, “9/11...
...erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards would welcome a Queen. But what if, one fine day, a future Queen Leonor announced she wanted to marry a woman? The protocol boggles, but no problem. In Spain today that's fine, too. Even for someone like me, raised in a democracy and resident here for the past 15 years, it's hard to digest the speed and size of the changes wrought in Spain since Franco died. When I first visited...
...this practical cohabitation brings about a catalog of ethical puzzles. What is the proper protocol in such circumstances? Is it appropriate to ask your neighbors to turn down the music, or stop having loud sex against the wall? Do you complain, or do you put on your headphones, crank up your iTunes and sulk? Is it polite to giggle about your neighbors’ private lives with your friends in the dining hall (and then write about it in the student newspaper)? At what point are you no longer a neighbor, but a voyeur...