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...answer to the numerous problems of the Ad Board. A loss of institutional memory has left the proceedings of the SFJB just as shrouded if not more, than the Administrative Board. What we do know about the SFJB, though, is in line with our vision of appropriate institutional reform. Options for student representation and more transparent procedures, for example, are qualities that that are appropriate in any fair decision-making body, especially one that handles issues affecting the larger student community. Even with the SFJB in use, general issues with the Ad Board’s structure must continue...
...this year, Beijing's General Administration of Customs said in a recent report. In the city of Shenzhen, the other major manufacturing center in Guangdong province, 50,000 people have already lost their jobs this year. And in Beijing last week, Zhang Ping, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the nation's key economic policymaking body, bluntly warned that "excessive production cuts and business closures will cause massive unemployment, and that will lead to instability...
...Since then, the country's fragile internal security has been entrusted to a 1,500-strong contingent of U.N. police and an International Stabilisation Force made up of 920 Australian and New Zealand troops. As part of the security program, the U.N. and the East Timorese government signed a Reform, Restructuring and Rebuilding plan to regenerate the PNTL...
...been an agreement between [President-elect Barack] Obama and [Senator John] McCain to move forward on that,” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Gannett News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration reform act that included a provision allowing public colleges to offer in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants. If passed, the bill would have also opened a path...
Stressing the need for immigration reform, Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez discussed his personal hopes for change and the feasibility of reform under President-elect Barack Obama last night at a dinner hosted by the Political Union and Citizenship Tutoring programs of the Institute of Politics. Welcoming questions from the audience composed of approximately 15 students, Dominguez described his position on the necessity of immigration policy reform. He explained that reform is truly needed yet is highly unlikely to take place. “I don’t think that there’s likely...