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Amidst all of the fuss about Harvard’s finances, we are in danger of letting Ad Board reform slip away. The composition and policies of the board, a group of administrators and faculty that evaluates students who violate a major school rule, has been a pressing student concern for many years. With the near-completion of the Ad Board Review Committee’s report, we are closer than ever to seeing meaningful progress. However, in order for reform to go through, the faculty must approve many of the changes the report proposes. And, unless the report comes...
Mather played Assassins during Reading Period in January, and with safe locations including the dining hall and house library, FlyBy initially expected the game to have dragged on for a while. Not so, however: a rule stating that participants had to kill their targets by midnight meant that the over 100 participants whittled down to merely a handful in only three days...
...murders of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova as well as the recent shootings of Ruslan and Sulim Yamadayev and Umar Israilov - enemies of Kremlin-supported Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov - and the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 point to a rule of lawlessness rather than the growing influence of a new code of professional behavior...
...early to tell whether those threats will be acted upon or are merely the words of brigands feeling stung after getting their way for so long. The pirates have had uninterrupted rule of Somalia's seas for several months, and a spate of recent attacks suggests they are broadening their range to well beyond the Gulf of Aden to several hundred miles off the Somali coast. They once portrayed themselves as a coast guard for a country that has no government, and said they were striking back against fishing boats that illegally fished and dumped toxic waste in their waters...
...certainly be construed by Latin America as a positive step," says Daniel Erikson, a senior analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue, in Washington, and the author of The Cuba Wars. "The region sees the Posada case as one of the worst examples of a U.S. double standard regarding the rule of law, a subject we often lecture Latin America about...