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...developed using traditional materials and modern ideas about mixing rich and poor, is popular with residents - and alongside the work of others, may have influenced politicians. Hank Dittmar, head of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, says Charles' conviction that cities should be built to human scale with an emphasis on livability "has become government policy. I'm not sure he gets much credit...
...They did so on such a scale that it changed the world. "Global criminal activities are transforming the international system, upending the rules, creating new players, and reconfiguring power in international politics and economics," writes Na?m. These new players are counterfeiters, shady financiers, snakeheads, terrorists, corrupt officials and other fast-adapters now flourishing beyond the reach of authorities. They have even redefined geography: as governments' control over the flow of people, goods and information weakens, opportunists have turned places like Cambodia, Liberia and parts of Russia into "geopolitical black holes" where illicit networks can operate unchecked...
...their next meeting, the CCL will discuss whether or not the $15,000 available should fund more larger-scale community-building events sponsored by multiple groups, rather than smaller student group gatherings...
...undergraduate experience is under the microscope, an overhauled CUE Guide can be an invaluable tool to evaluate everything from the proposed portal courses to any improvement in undergraduate advising. The CUE should combine the flexibility of a web-based survey with new, more probing questions and an expanded grading scale to achieve the survey’s true potential...
...Lesser adds that the city government has a “big say in regulations and requirements for things like concerts, for big-scale things like Harvard-Yale. You need a city that’s willing to cooperate, or at least a city government and student government that are on the same page, so that things can move more smoothly...