Word: standoff
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Finally, a morsel of reason seems to have prevailed in the ongoing standoff between University Hall and the Undergraduate Council (UC) over the UC’s party fund. Don’t get too excited—the future of the party fund has yet to be resolved, student group funding is still up in the air, and the UC’s money remains frozen. But UC-termbill derived funding of House Committees (HoCos), which last week appeared to be in jeopardy, will thankfully be unaffected. Credit for the change goes to the College administration. Last week, Assistant...
While Petersen left unmentioned the party grants which had sparked a standoff between University Hall and students, he criticized the role students have been granted in decision-making...
...contrary, an economically resurgent Russia views the Iran standoff as another opportunity to reclaim some of the strategic ground it lost after the Soviet collapse. It is pushing back against the U.S. because it sees Washington's power as having been used to decimate Moscow's influence in the former Soviet territories it considers its backyard. That strategic orientation has led Russia to make common cause with other regimes at odds with Washington, most important among them China; ironically, perhaps, Moscow and Beijing are more closely aligned now, against U.S. power, than they were during the Cold War, when their...
...Russia may hold the key to the Iranian standoff, but it is unlikely to be moved by entreaties by Western leaders for President Putin to "act responsibly" on Iran. Gone are the days when gaining Western approval and gratitude would have been a Kremlin objective. Now, Russia's response will be driven by its own agenda. And in Putin's mind, it's unlikely to be separated from his broader strategic agenda, which most certainly includes a greater leveling of the global balance of power...
...Still, the Iran standoff is unlikely to be resolved any time soon by a compromise similar to the one on North Korea, because of the substantial differences between the two cases. These include...