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Pilbeam said he imagined the members of the College’s committee would be in touch with the recently formed Undergraduate Council Ad Board Reform Committee...
...UC’s reform committee, which includes both UC representatives and other students, solicited student input last night at two sparsely attended open meetings in Quincy and Mather...
Just six students were present for most of the Quincy discussion, which roamed from proposal to proposal, revealing some uncertainty about how best to reform the process...
...opposition party, Gianfranco Fini, said Monday he wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version of Margaret Thatcher (and pre-cursor to Nicolas Sarkozy): a free market reformer ready to shake up the status quo and social welfare state in old Europe. But in his five-year reign from 2001 to 2006, Berlusconi was unable to overcome divisions among his allies or resist his own focus on protecting his business and judicial interests to produce real reform...
...four of those detained are members of Viet Tan (Vietnam Reform), an organization of overseas Vietnamese working for political change in the motherland. According to the group, the banned materials the activists were distributing included a booklet called "From Dictatorship to Democracy," a summary of peaceful democratic movements from Eastern Europe to Indonesia and the Philippines. "This was simply a peaceful expression of these people's beliefs," says Duy Hoang, the group's Washington, D.C.-based spokesman...