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...Undergraduate Council (UC) passed two party fund acts yesterday—including an increased fund for first-years—in a session marking the end of the term for outgoing UC leaders John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07. Haddock—sporting a brace-clad leg and a set of crutches in the wake of an injury sustained during a soccer game—was seated as the first bit of legislation regarding party fund arrangements passed without any debate. “This looks pretty standard...
...time when the world is preoccupied with intractable geopolitical and climatological issues, that session of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's Working Group on Bribery in International Business may seem of marginal significance. In fact, it was one of the hot topics on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, because it exemplifies just how far the world has come - and how far it still has to go - in cracking down on one of the great scourges of globalization...
...menu for this spring mandating a community service component, students are increasingly seeing syllabi in which homework entails more than required reading. In a new collaboration, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Harvard Public Service Network held an information session yesterday to introduce students to 10 “activity-based learning” classes, three of which haven’t been offered before. Each of the courses includes community service to prompt students to draw from a volunteer experience for a deeper understanding of the subject matter being...
...dating back more than 30 years. Hubris is another problem. Responsible for policing themselves, legislators have gone easy on those involved in alleged wrongdoing and acquitted many of those accused of involvement in the scandals. Avarice is rife: faced with better offers, 194 deputies swapped parties during the last session and 14 of the new batch have switched their affiliation before even taking office. The problem for Lula and Brazil is that changing that putrid political system involves politicians voting for their demise. That isn't going to happen, and certainly not with the likes of Maluf and Collor...
...raid on its official liaison office in Erbil. Both acts might have provoked a harsher response were Tehran more confident that Washington's confrontational rhetoric was meant only to intimidate. Former president Mohammad Khatami, viewed here as a valuable interlocutor in dealing with the United States, attended a session with Senator Bob Kerrey at the World Economic Summit in Davos - under normal circumstances such a meeting would leave radicals here livid...