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Whom, then, will this change help? Only the admissions office, which is acting, it seems, out of a selfish desire to move up a notch or two in meaningless college guides by improving its yield. But that yield is already astronomically high. This move bespeaks that most un-Harvard of qualities: insecurity. If Harvard is afraid that competitors like Yale and Stanford, both of which recently switched from binding to non-binding early admissions policies, will snatch up its best applicants, surely the answer is not to put a further stranglehold on those students. A school with our prestige...
...What About the UN...
...accepted an as-yet undefined role for the UN in managing a post-Saddam Iraq. Officials suggest the international body could coordinate humanitarian assistance, for example. That much may be a financial and legal necessity for the Bush administration. Currently, legal control over Iraqi oil revenues is in the hands of the United Nations "oil-for-food" program. Indeed, Washington last week went back to the Security Council to seek authorization for an urgent resumption of the program, putting Secretary General Kofi Annan in charge of the funds and authorizing him to spend them on urgent humanitarian needs...
...UN officials warn that Iraqi oil revenues will cover only a small fraction of the cost of rebuilding Iraq, and Washington is hoping to persuade European countries to contribute generously. But EU officials say that while Europe would be willing to channel such aid through a UN authority, it would not fund an administration installed...
...assuaged by the installation of a government staffed by Iraqis, because their primary concern - shared by the skeptics at State and elsewhere in Washington - is that the viability of any new authority depends on the extent to which it enjoys national, regional and international legitimacy. That, they argue, requires UN supervision of the processes of electing a new leadership and drafting a new constitution. Against that, the hawks will argue that tying up the transition in the inevitably fractious UN process will simply delay the emergence of a democratic, post-Saddam Iraq...