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...college lives. We have learned so much from our times on the former SAC and perhaps an equivalent amount during this time of restructuring. We also congratulate the task force on their hard work. However, amidst this period of transition the Institute should not forget the root concern that must be addressed. Until the Institute determines conclusively what the purpose of undergraduate involvement should be, there will never be any effective reform...
...powerful if hard-edged tool of Western medicine. So she returned to school, earned her M.D. at the University of New Mexico, and now practices a rich mix of healing arts. Her clinic is a place where pain may be treated just as easily with acupuncture, kava kava root and preparations from the black cohosh plant as with prescription drugs. "Illness is a message," she says. "Western doctors see it as something to be destroyed, but it can also tell us about how we live our lives and what we can do differently...
...Nelson Mandela was wont to say that journalists are patriots too, and why shouldn't they do their part to help the home team? It's a fair question, but what I'm not sure the South African government understands is that journalists are also being patriots when they root out corruption and when they speak truth to power by pointing out when the government errs...
...There are many accomplishments to celebrate. The 1990s was a period of dynamic growth and transformation in the Americas. The embrace of democracy and free markets took steadily deeper root, laying a foundation of common values as well as a self-conscious resolve to pursue common causes. One of the centerpieces of that resolve has been the Summit of the Americas process, begun in Miami in 1994 and renewed in Santiago, Chile, in 1998. At these meetings we have jointly developed a hemispheric agenda of shared prosperity and inclusiveness that puts the needs of people - some 800 million of them...
...Greenspan would give them anything at all before the May 15 meet. A cut then was still considered a given, 25 or 50 points off the top, but with a month to go nobody was really waiting around. Yet what seemed to be a self-inflicted rally had taken root over the holiday week, and this week it was holding up. Maybe Greenspan was just waiting for Wall Street to stop begging...