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Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, after just a month in office struggling to retain credibility as his nation's finances appear in disarray, today fired his treasury secretary and adopted an international bailout package which hopes to stabilize the peso. Treasury Secretary Jaime Serra Puche will be replaced by another U.S. trained economist, Guillermo Ortiz Martinez. The new package is designed to limit wage and price hikes and will also include unspecified financing from industrialized nations including the U.S. and Canada. Meanwhile, the value of the peso increased today, a second straight day of improving prospects for the nation's currency...
...ordered choice allows most students to live in a house of their choice, while ensuring that each house will retain some diversity. When 20 field hockey players or computer hackers (or whatever) land in one house, they can greatly throw off that house's balance...
Epps said Monday that he has questions about the proposed student group's autonomy, not its beliefs. To win official College endorsement, a group must retain local autonomy, among other requirements...
...compromise is not flawless. The distinction between the current payment plan and the new plan is a fine one, and to many will ring false. The University, after all, will retain significant control over the nominally independent ROTC fund. Thus, a good idea, we think, would be to go even further: Harvard could, for example, hand over control of ROTC funds to somebody not directly affiliated with the University--perhaps a Harvard graduate with experience in financial management. This would ensure a clean break between Harvard and ROTC funding, since the checks wouldn't even bear the University's name...
While the prospect of nonstop hearings promises to make life miserable at the State Department, senior Clinton officials are not visibly troubled by Helms yet. In a pep talk to his top aides, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott pointed out that Presidents retain huge advantages in managing foreign affairs because they can do so much without congressional approval. He added that November exit polls showed foreign policy does not much concern voters at the moment; voters seem to want more continuity with the past in foreign policy, not less...