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...curricular review whose recommendations were implemented. Along with his role as senior adviser, Pilbeam will co-chair the Education Policy Committee (EPC) with Gross. Formed in 1992 by Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles, the EPC is responsible for making suggestions for curricular reform. Although Knowles and William C. Kirby both co-chaired the committee during their tenures as deans of the Faculty, Knowles wrote in an e-mail that he has “many more committees...to chair these days,” and that the “EPC could...
Summers, at a conference in Singapore, did not return an e-mail message seeking comment. The report calls for “immediate, overarching reform and decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, government agencies, and Congress...
...Imagine what it's like to be a young person living in a country that is not moving toward reform. You're 21 years old, and while your peers in other parts of the world are casting their ballots for the first time, you are powerless to change the course of your government. While your peers in other parts of the world have received educations that prepare them for the opportunities of a global economy, you have been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories that blame others for your country's shortcomings. And everywhere you turn, you hear extremists who tell...
...KILLED. Andrei Kozlov, 41, who, as the first deputy chief of Russia's central bank, worked to reform the country's fast-expanding, long-corrupt financial sector-along the way angering "pocket banks" largely controlled by oligarchs; shot by two gunmen outside a soccer arena; in Moscow. In an effort to make the chaotic industry safer, Kozlov cracked down on money laundering, closed shady banks and lobbied to consolidate the nation's 1,200 financial institutions...
...Finally, for the IMF to be seen by all its members as a legitimate place for multilateral dialogue, and for them to trust the fund as a lender, members must feel adequately represented. A central focus of reform today is the restructuring of voting power to better reflect changes in economic importance, as well as to give small poor countries more of a say. This is no easy task. A gain for some will mean a loss for others. But if reforms enacted in Singapore bolster confidence in the IMF, everybody wins?and future anniversaries should be happy affairs...