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Pilbeam will take office on Sept. 1 and succeed Benedict H. Gross '71, who said in June that he would step down after five years of leading the College...
...enjoy undivided attention. Schools now provide boys and girls the same educational resources. Historically, girls overcame harsh inequities and brutal discrimination. Boys have been deprived of nothing. The age-old excuse, "Boys will be boys," is the root of the problem. Boys have to learn responsibility. Then they will succeed. Jeanette V. Novak, Northville, Michigan...
...Zuma, 65, is currently the only political figure in South Africa who has openly declared an interest in succeeding President Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki ends his second term as President in 2009, and the constitution bars him from a third. This year Mbeki also finishes his second term as president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). And should Zuma succeed Mbeki at the ANC's annual conference in December - the incumbent hasn't yet decided whether he'll stand again - his elevation to the highest office in 2009 would be all but assured. Hence politics in South Africa is increasingly...
Only if business owners like my barber succeed will normality return to Gaza. Mohammed Telbani owns the largest factory in Gaza, making cookies and ice cream. But he can't get his raw materials and packaging through the Israeli embargo, and he can't send his finished products to the West Bank, where distributors have started buying cookies from Lebanon instead. "I've worked on creating that market for 30 years, and now it's gone," Telbani said. Gaza's beaches may be packed and its streets safe, but its factories are shut, and its stores have almost no customers...
...President George W. Bush's sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a four-day swing through the Middle East, ending up, as usual, in the holy city of Jerusalem, which remains the key to many of the region's unsolved quarrels. But the President's attempt to succeed where Bill Clinton failed looks likely to achieve, at best, mixed results...