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From Wednesday through Friday, elections for Undergraduate Council representatives will take place over e-mail. This year, more than in years past, these elections matter; yet the number of total candidates is down and people seem to be regarding the elections as flippantly as ever...
...reason this week's elections matter is that in today's "New Council"--the product of a semester under the leadership of Beth A. Stewart '00--the role of the council's president has been greatly diminished. The council's accomplishments these days seem more than ever to be the work of individual members, with the assistance and encouragement of the leadership...
...this question was an appropriate litmus test for Schroder's integrity or fitness for office, it may seem impressive that he could win by as wide a margin as he did--except for the fact that the new chancellor's necessary and sufficient selling point in Sunday's election was that he is not Helmut Kohl. Sixteen years is double the length of time any American president is allowed to serve (unless his predecessor resigns, of course) and was long enough to make people question whether or not democracy was still kicking in Germany...
...four of these men seem to get along well with one another. One only needs recall the happy shots of Clinton and Blair--in Ireland or London or Washington--or the smiley weekends Jospin and Schroder spent in the capital this summer to be convinced of their collective jocularity. In theory, it seems, the Western world has never as been as poised to act as a cohesive unit as it is today, at the close of the twentieth century...
...slammed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people onboard. While the cause of that Sept. 2 crash has not yet been determined, investigators have discovered indications of a fire in an electronics compartment below the cockpit, and the presence of smoke made the crash seem eerily similar to that of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades in 1996. As a result, the Swissair disaster has attracted fresh attention to inexpensive devices already widely deployed in private corporate jets--but not in commercial aircraft--that can help protect pilots and passengers from the horror...