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...ruling Democratic Party of Serbia, told TIME that Serbia may well reconsider its "betrothal" to the E.U. if the E.U. recognizes Kosovo. Djelic, the Deputy Premier, agrees: E.U. support for a unilateral declaration, he said, "would throw the European orientation of Serbia - and certainly the speed of reform - into question." In one recent poll by New Serbian Political Thought, a nationalist journal, 80% of respondents said that they would seek closer ties with Russia if Kosovo were granted independence before the U.N. had sanctioned...
Thankfully, reform may be underway. Last week, Interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam announced the creation a committee to consider Ad Board reform, bringing the call made last spring for Ad Board reform from former-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to fruition. But as progressive as this may sound, it seems that the Dean Pilbeam has already reinforced the status quo of Ad Board opacity: he named only three anonymous faculty members and no students to the committee. Without undergraduate representation, this committee cannot legitimately purport to reform the Ad Board, an organization...
...reform occurs in a mysterious vacuum, removed from students whose interests reformers claim to be considering, it will never be able to legitimately address the Ad Board’s weaknesses, nor the criticism against its secrecy. Even if one feels that students should not be on the Ad Board itself due to privacy reasons—a view with which we disagree—such concerns do not apply to the reform committee. There is thus no defensible reason to exclude students from the committee...
...real damage cannot be measured in dollars alone. What could promote interracial understanding better than the diverse casting of Lost? How can we debate healthcare reform without the riveting emergency-room drama of Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs? Who symbolizes our commitment to national security better than 24’s Jack Bauer? America’s writers are singlehandedly undermining the pop culture of their entire nation...
...First on Rudd's list after ratifying Kyoto is to start rolling back the WorkChoices laws. Howard said that if these laws were reversed, no Liberal government would ever again attempt serious industrial-relations reform. But Rudd's program could be slowed by the Senate, which the Coalition will control for the next seven months. After July next year, it appears that Greens and Independents will hold the balance of power. Labor won many of its lower-house seats with Green preferences, and the Greens are much further to the left than Rudd. Greens Senator Kerry Nettle warned before...