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Indeed, it would be impossible for the two groups to compete in the upcoming election--all six of the Rainbow's council candidates are also on the CCA's nine-member slate...
...obvious that the Core needs reform. It doesn't work. With a very few notable exceptions, professors don't want to teach the classes, students don't want to take the classes. But I'd rather have six more Core requirements than one "Western Civ" class. I'd rather double my science requirements than be told I am about to read the "Great Books...
During a month of fighting, the Pakistanis claim six of their men died, while at least 34 Indians were killed; India refuses to release its casualty figures. Though accounts of the struggle differ, it appears that the Indians eventually requested a meeting between the two opposing brigade commanders. After three sessions, both sides pledged to pull back their men, and the Indians agreed to accept two enemy posts that the Pakistanis said had been there all along. It was the first time local commanders had met face to face to sort out a disengagement...
This banishment from study, although not the damage it has caused, may be coming to an end. Yielding to pressure from the U.S. and its own citizens, the Israeli government decided earlier this month to reopen a limited number of West Bank schools starting July 22. While the first six elementary school grades and the twelfth grade were scheduled to resume, the middle grades and West Bank colleges and universities will remain closed. The decision does not affect Gaza, where, except for universities and selected elementary and secondary facilities, most schools have continued to operate throughout the uprising...
Since most West Bank schools were first closed in February 1988, many Palestinian youngsters have hardly seen the inside of a normal classroom. A generation of six- and seven-year-olds have been growing up illiterate. Some have studied sporadically at "underground" schools set up by Palestinian activists in isolated buildings and mosques. But the risks have been high. "If the Israeli army finds the place, the teacher will be arrested, the children will start to run away -- and the army shoots," says Karemah, a Palestinian mother who refused to send her children to an illegal class near Bethlehem...