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...silent protest for ethnic studies on Feb. 13 was part of an increasingly vocal campaign to reform Harvard’s curriculum. Though standing committees and certificates are the subjects of debate for now, the real question is whether programs related to issues of identity will receive full department status. Ethan Y. Yeh ’03, a member of the Ethnic Studies Coalition, has been especially active in seeking departments in Latino and Latin American studies, Native-American studies and Asian-American studies, as well as in “area studies” of regions such as Africa...
...refashion the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and change Japan. He won unprecedented support and fawning adoration from a public hungry for a new way of doing things. Everyone from economists to housewives seemed to agree that the country needed a good dose of shock therapy. Why then, does reform in Japan seem dead...
...rationalization repeated at least 353 times over?that's the number of legislators in the two houses of Japan's parliament. Koizumi's reforms are being nibbled to death, the victims of both local politics, as in Yamaguchi's case, and Japan's powerful factions and their heavyweight constituents. As for highway construction projects, Koizumi actually won approval to privatize the state-run companies that oversee road building. But members of the LDP, pushed by their construction company patrons, demanded assurances that the fate of each of the more than 2,000 proposed projects will be voted...
...self-serving ruling ?lite appealing and approved of their campaigns to ban alcohol and hashish and end age-old discrimination against women. That support is now all but gone, opening the avenue for Deuba to win back the public. Last week he promised sweeping social, economic and constitutional reforms, building on a package of land-reform measures passed last summer. But in the short term, the war continues to escalate. And while the eventual winner is unknown, the inevitable losers will be Nepal's 23 million, largely poverty-stricken citizens...
Similar requests are issuing from other capitals. And no wonder. The reforms being discussed in Brussels over the next 12 months will apply equally to the new members, and there's unease that instead of promoting reform, the enlargement process could take a back seat to it. "The really serious issue is whether the E.U. becomes divided into a fast-moving core and a slower group," says Dimitrij Rupel, Slovenia's Foreign Minister. "We don't want to be on the periphery."Under the proposed rules, delegates from candidate countries are full participants at the Convention - except that they "cannot...