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...Travel-office firings spark an FBI investigation...
Here's how peace will spark upheaval: Middle Eastern governments will no longer be able to justify huge military expenditures (often made to secure their own rule) or defer public demands for more freedoms and better living conditions by invoking border defense, territorial mandates, nationalism or cultural honor. So they'll spend the next quarter-century confronting--or being confronted by--the forces already changing the rest of the world...
...stands for a question that we need to think a lot about. I hope that [this discussion] will spark further thought," Park said...
...reform movement has experienced yet. The leadership has become acutely aware of the need to avoid giving the conservatives the slightest excuse for any sort of crackdown, because they're aware that the shutdown of a newspaper, for example, could provoke a student demonstration, and that in turn could spark a fierce crackdown that might even create a security pretext for the conservatives to delay the seating of the new parliament...
Apparently the College feels it's time to bring literature and intellectual interests back to the houses--and perhaps spark interest in the Romance Languages at the same time. Last week, the College announced the new masters for houses with departing ones: Professor Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted will take the reins of Eliot House and Professor Tom C. Conley and Professor Verena A. Conley will assume leadership of Kirkland house next September. Pertile and Tom Conley are professors of romance languages and literature, Verana Conley is a literature professor, and Bensted is an editor for National Public Radio...