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...act—originally passed in 1965 and last renewed a decade ago—is a catch-all educational reform, dealing with everything from student financial aid to campus safety reporting to peer-to-peer file-sharing...
December’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was dominated by discussion of one issue—Harvard’s handling of the Israel-Palestine conflict—to the neglect of General Education and curricular reform. The subsequent January meeting was cancelled due to “insufficient business,” despite the pressing and important issues that have sat idly on past Faculty meeting dockets. For the first time in two months, however, the Faculty will finally convene today–this time, hopefully, to rescue these issues from the horrors...
...finance chiefs talked about the U.S. housing market, rising energy prices, financial-sector reform, credit problems, inflation and exchange rates. But rather than resulting in specific measures, the meeting produced a kind of watch-and-wait strategy whereby the G-7 nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, would "continue to take appropriate actions, individually and collectively, in order to secure stability and growth in our economies," according to their statement...
...most sensitive social issues in Turkey, the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) has moved to lift a ban on young women wearing headscarves at universities. The country's secularists, who see the headscarf as a symbol of political Islam, are up in arms over the proposed reform. The debate is the latest installment in the ongoing and increasingly bitter tug of war between the government and a militantly secularist establishment long used to getting...
...petty rivalries for media face time, the picture for Sarkozy wouldn't be so bad. But as he met with his cabinet, thousands of taxi drivers protesting proposed deregulation of their profession created mammoth traffic jams in cities across France - another in a series of strikes Sarkozy's wider reform drive has faced since October. This time it was cabbies denouncing sweeping liberalization across a range of small, protected business sectors, as proposed in a study by an expert panel commissioned by Sarkozy to find ways of stimulating economic growth. The commission is headed by Jacques Attali - a former adviser...