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Harvard’s Graduate Student Council, the governing student body of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, organized and led the weekend-long conference—known as the Ivy Summit on Graduate Student Governance—which highlighted concerns shared among the graduate schools...
...Summit is a great opportunity to acknowledge that the different schools have similar issues regarding graduate student life and graduate student advocacy,” said David S. Lukofsky, student administrator for Dartmouth’s graduate student council...
...Friday, for example, officials at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing looked to the Nov. 15 international summit in Washington to begin reforming the global financial system with a call to pump up the IMF in managing the situation. "Leaders agreed that the IMF should play a critical role in assisting countries seriously affected by the crisis, upon their request," a concluding statement urged...
...even if the summit yields trans-Atlantic agreement on tougher regulations, Lannoo says the new determination to substitute sobriety for greed may be a harder line to sell to emerging nations. "Lots of countries in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and South America are going to say, 'these are reactions to your problems created by your systems - why should we listen to anything you say now?'," Lannoo says. "The challenge isn't just finding ways to prevent future excess, but also to convince nations like China and India to agree to turn off the music and quiet down when they...
...consistently denied media requests to answer this question, but a few brave acolytes have tried to defend him. Their answers fall back on two points: that Mr. Gore’s unique messenger status means it is his political actions, not his personal choices, that matter; and that his summit-filled lifestyle would make it hard to be a vegetarian...