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...Dowling Report, a review charged with the task of considering student governance on campus, was released Monday to mixed reactions from past and present Undergraduate Council members. While some UC members called it a necessary first step for improving the council’s effectiveness and efficiency, others called it an underwhelming follow-up to a landmark document of the same name that founded the UC.“It’s the report of another committee chair by John Dowling, but it’s not the successor to the Dowling Report,” said Eric...
Well, not exactly. Plans are for the plant to open on schedule tomorrow, still powered for the time being by coal. It would be heartbreakingly easy to mock a global-warming protest that was nearly snowed out, but what happened in Washington could be a significant step in the climate-change movement. For all the attention paid to it in the media, global warming remains an amorphous issue for many Americans, one with consequences that are far-off and unconnected to their daily lives. If that is ever going to change, warming advocates need to make climate change a matter...
...proposals are adopted, the student-faculty committees would be given decision-making power, a step-up from the current advisory role they now serve. Under the proposal, the committee’s decision could be vetoed by the chair of the committee, but that veto could be overridden with a 2/3 vote...
...Another important step forward in resolving the North Korean issue. It is an encouraging sign of the Obama administration's seriousness commitment to the denuclearization of North Korea." - Tong Kim, a professor at Ilmin Institute of International Relations at Korea University and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, on Bosworth's appointment. Korea Times...
...Shutting down Guantánamo is a giant step. But, as we have learned so dearly in the past, decisive action calls for a coherent exit strategy. More crucially, the United States and its allies need a new game plan for handling international terrorist suspects—a strategy that jives with both human-rights concerns and a stronger commitment to multilateral counterterrorism...