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...estate that won't be on the list, even though it is only partially occupied now, is GM's riverfront headquarters in downtown Detroit, a city that's now world famous for its industrial ruins. The Obama Administration has decreed the headquarters will stay downtown - at least for now - rather than move to vacant space at the GM Technical Center in suburban Warren. (Watch an interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally...
...firmly on the side of instituting changes, many of which are outlined below and will take effect next year. Many students facing Board sanctions feel inadequately supported. To help students and to allow the resident deans to offer support, the Secretary of the Board, or a designee— rather than the student’s resident dean— will notify a student that a case has been initiated. This allows the resident dean to act more strictly as an advisor. If a student would like an alternative advisor, they may choose another Board member. Also?...
...Docket Committee. The full faculty currently hears dismissal cases, but for reasons of privacy, it is not feasible to distribute supporting documents to all voting members—700–800 people. The committee has recommended that cases of dismissal should be delegated to the Faculty Council, rather than the full faculty...
...Meantime, the Palestinian leader is trying rather blatantly to show Washington that while he may have lost Gaza to the Islamic militants Hamas, his security forces are still capable of policing the West Bank. On Sunday, Abbas' forces raided a Hamas stronghold in the West Bank town of Qalqilya; six were killed in the resulting clash. This may be a way for Abbas to prove to Obama that he's fulfilling his security promises, but the shoot-out could wreck ongoing talks in Egypt between Abbas and Hamas over forming a unity government that would bring the West Bank...
...disappearance will take time. For Julien Gourguechon, international secretary-general of the SNPL French pilots' union, the current hypothesis of an electrical-systems failure leads to more questions than answers. "If Air France mentioned they received a message of short circuit, we can conclude it was a rather serious one," he says. "But in the case of an A330, even the most serious type of short circuit - known as an emergency electrical configuration - is something absolutely manageable for a trained team. So at this time I cannot explain the exact reasons for this tragedy, if it is indeed confirmed...