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...With such broad power, the new committee promises to become a bureaucratic monster like its predecessor, stifling curricular and pedagogical flexibility and operating only in line with the letter, not the spirit, of its governing legislation. The new standing committee may begin life as an agent of reform, as the Core committee did, but over time, dynamism will inevitably devolve into inertia. If the Task Force’s rhetoric of flexibility and openness is to become reality, it must be explicitly enshrined in the legislation, not left to discretion of a bureaucracy. Leery of the creation of a constraining...
...tell everyone that they are so strong and so confident that, yeah, you can come into our trials, and they're phony and it's a kangaroo court - and tough luck," Adams says. "It's also entirely possible that somebody in the system considers this is a small reform in opening up trials, even if what happened in the courtroom isn't very pretty." If Vietnam says it's just following the law in its dissident crackdown, the open trial could be seen as delivering on pledges of transparency...
...prices fall and his entourage starts to look for the protection they will need when he is gone. The Other Russia has brought together a number of groups, from the old nationalist left to the liberal right. All have agreed on a program of fundamental political reform, including a reduction of presidential power, more authority for the parliament and a delegation of authority to the regions. The group's members hope to coalesce around a single presidential candidate...
Illinois Senator Barack Obama disappointed many who attended the forum. Obama says he is thinking big when it comes to health-care reform, but he was noticeably uncomfortable when pressed for details. Morgan Miller, a young woman in the audience, told Obama that she had searched his campaign website for specifics and hadn't found them. "What really are your top issues when you want to talk about health care?" she asked him. "Are you going to address the pharmaceutical companies? Are you going to address the insurance companies?" Obama, pleading that his campaign was only eight weeks old, promised...
President Hosni Mubarak heralded the 34 constitutional amendments approved by Egyptian voters on Monday as a reform milestone, while domestic opponents and foreign critics castigated them for tightening his authoritarian rule. On one point there seems little disagreement, however: as long as the five-term, 78-year-old Egyptian leader remains in office, political change will be controlled, gradual and on the regime's terms...