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Make the issue an issue by gaining the support of the public and publicly respected Harvard professors. Intellectual celebrities help legitimize and strengthen students’ complaints in the eyes of the bureaucrats upstairs. (For example: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu wants you to divest, too. We’ll sit in this doorway until you notice...
Hoping to strengthen ties with local community service programs, Shaw Natsui ’05-’06 won an uncontested race for the presidency of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) last night...
...schism caused by the war in Iraq, should Europe redouble its efforts to work with the second Bush Administration - or go it alone? French President Jacques Chirac made one of the most ardent postelection declarations of European independence. "Now more than ever, [Europe] has the need, the necessity, to strengthen its dynamism and unity when faced with this great world power," he said on Nov. 5. Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero told Der Spiegel that Europeans should "have faith in the prospect of becoming the most important global power in 20 years." Of Europe...
...signs of being unhappy about the trend. Still, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet "is caught between a rock and a hard place," reckons Credit Suisse First Boston economist Neville Hill: buoyant oil prices are contributing to higher inflation, but the bank can't raise rates because that would further strengthen the euro. Right now, the most Trichet can do is complain. Dividing to conquer? Could an antitrust cease-fire between Microsoft and its most bitter rivals spell trouble for the E.U.'s competition police? The software behemoth last week convinced its competitor Novell to lay down arms in exchange...
Burden said the Gonzales nomination would strengthen Bush’s support among Latinos—44 percent of whom voted to re-elect the president last week, according to exit polls...