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Indeed, the interesting thing about the past month of post-election soul-searching is that the most salient cleavage is proving to be less left v. right than reform v. status quo. This fissure was of course prefigured by the Dean campaign, which was always less about pushing an ideological critique than about pressing its outsider reformist sensibility. So if you’re looking for a bellwether for the Democrats’ post-election direction, keep your eye on Dean’s bid to be the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair. Not to say that Dean...
Promoting involvement in the council, by both its own members and students at large, was a promise made prominently in the platforms of all three contenders this election season. The council’s two new executives can fulfill this promise by pushing through plans to reform the council’s structure and culture in order to make House and Yard representatives more responsive to their constituents...
...billion has been liquidated, including the shock sale of the nation's proudest status symbol, the 51-storey Nauru House tower in central Melbourne. Receivers appointed to recover a $A263 million debt to the General Electric Corporation sold the property last month. Adeang, one of several young, well-educated reformers in the government elected in an October landslide, says most of Nauru's 10,000 residents have finally accepted that change must happen: "We have said there is no other way but reform...
...question and answer session, Summers was forced to defend his position as an economist, which some saw as favoring economic development at the cost of economic reform. “There’s a reason I wasn’t in a big hurry to be on this panel,” Summers joked...
...faculty has, to date, not had a serious discussion of calendar reform,” Mendelsohn says. “I could be convinced for either, but I would like to see more evidence...