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While it may not be rare to hear students opining on the UC’s relationship with the administration over a meal in the dining hall, it is less common for College powers that be to disclose their thoughts on the matter. Perhaps not surprisingly, administrators revealed their opinions less readily than student critics...
...report may signal progress in the study of how age-related illnesses can be treated—an area where breakthroughs are rare. “It should be useful to have a published scientific study in an area having no shortage of enthusiasts yet thus far lacking in convincing evidence,” chemistry professor Stuart L. Schreiber, who teaches Science B-47, “Molecules of Life,” wrote in an e-mail...
...past it’s been rare that a ticket would have someone who is very active in the Student Affairs Committee and someone with the Finance Committee,” Sarafa says...
...joke. But that unguarded comment offered a rare glimpse at the split that has opened up between Bush and his hard-line Veep. Since 2001, Cheney has been against just the kind of U.S. involvement in Arab-Israeli affairs that Bush is embracing, arguing that the early creation of a Palestinian state could jeopardize Israel's security. And the peace talks are part of a larger trend. In the past two years, Bush has negotiated with the North Koreans over their nuclear weapons and offered the Iranians incentives to talk about their nuclear ambitions, sometimes directly overruling Cheney...
...Academy's superintendent's house on the banks of the Severn River in Annapolis, Bush pushed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to agree on a negotiating plan for the next 14 months. That was an unexpected turn in the talks. "[Bush] said it was rare when people find themselves at a juncture where they can change history," said a senior Administration official in the room. "It was very moving." But history judges leaders on their handling of the national interest, not on their emotional touch. After Annapolis, the two sides will pursue the tough final...