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University Provost Steven E. Hyman, who chairs the task force charged with recommending changes for Harvard’s libraries, sat in the front row at the Faculty meeting and was forced at one point to take the microphone in a departure from his usual silence...
Members of the task force examining Harvard’s libraries emphasized the dire structural problems confronting one of the University’s most cherished resources, causing professors to express concern about the health of the libraries in the face of potential consolidation...
...This is the first time in the UC’s history that we’re putting a foundation for a student-faculty committee that does a very important task in the UC’s bylaws,” said Eric N. Hysen ’11, chair of the Rules Committee and a member of the Crimson IT Board. “It’s a very important precedent for how the UC can be involved in governing student life...
Nevertheless, election workers, with the help of the U.N. and, in some cases, donkeys and camels, began spreading throughout the country with a fresh batch of ballot papers, tamper-proof boxes and indelible ink to be delivered to far-flung polling stations. This time, however, the task won't be quite so arduous. Afghanistan's election commission has decided to cut the number of polling stations by about 2,000 out of 25,000 in an attempt to mitigate some of the fraudulent methods practiced in the first round, when stations that never opened due to security fears nevertheless reported...
...Part of its task will be to evaluate the government's response in tackling the disease, and draw up recommendations for future large-scale leptospirosis outbreaks, said Eric Tayag, head of the Department of Health's National Epidemiology Center. "They will also be looking at why there have been such high mortality rates" in the current outbreak, he said. Between 5 and 10% of the cases in this outbreak have been resulted in death - the highest level of mortality for leptospirosis by WHO's measures. (Read "The Manila Floods: Why Wasn't the City Prepared...