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...official standing committee of the Faculty, was founded in 1970 in response to the 1969 student seizure of University Hall and to the earlier takeover of Paine Hall. Students involved in the protests had demanded more undergraduate power in administrative decisions, and CHUL’s composition reflected that request. The committee was comprised of both Faculty and student members, including student House representatives, House masters and administrators...
When Congress passed President Bush's tax bill last week, it had all the major elements he wanted: an immediate general income-tax-rate cut, a big tax break for dividends (plus another for capital gains he didn't request), and new deductions for small businesses. The total cost over 10 years, $350 billion, is less than half the $726 billion Bush asked for, but much of the gap is accounting tricks. The President need not worry that this bill won't cost enough...
...Pedroso, 38, protests that he's a victim of a wicked calumny. "I have never participated in any act of pedophilia or any similar act," he told a press conference shortly before his arrest, which came after parliament lifted his immunity at his own request. As Secretary of State for Labor and Training from 1999 to 2001, Pedroso was responsible for the Casa Pia homes, which care for some 4,600 children at 10 centers around Portugal. He is suspected of 15 cases of sexual violence against minors, which allegedly took place between 1999 and 2000. Ritto, 67, who retired...
Harvard’s form was due in February, but the University filed an extension request until...
...meltdown of one of the country's top lenders has long been expected given Japan's chronic economic problems, and Resona's plight will only add to fears that the worst is yet to come. Curiously, however, the bank's bailout request may be something of a victory for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's much-maligned financial-services czar, Heizo Takenaka. A Harvard-trained economist, Takenaka took up his current post last fall, vowing to clean up the banking sector, but powerful politicians thwarted his initial reforms. Takenaka retreated, seemingly having made yet another false start in Japan's halfhearted...