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UNICEF marked its 50th anniversary today by calling attention to the devastation that children are suffering in the regional wars underway around the world. TIME's Bonnie Angelo reports, "The strength of UNICEF is that it has never lost its focus on children. Because the leadership has been hands on and carefully chosen, it has a clearly defined sense of its parameters, unlike many other United Nations organizations, which are diffuse and disorganized." UNICEF's new ten-point anti-war plan calls for systematic reporting of war crimes against women and children, moves to discourage child conscription, to monitor...
...recognize that students and others may nonetheless worry about the administrative colleges that are underway. We are continually consulting with everyone concerned to ensure a smooth transition. The arrangements for public service in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were modified only after extensive consultations, and they must function for a time before further adjustments are considered in the light of experience. Public service programs at Harvard will not benefit from never-ending arguments about administration...
...from the state-run Xinhua news agency. Wei, who served 15 years in prison for his involvement in the 1978 "democracy wall" movement, disappeared under police custody 20 months ago after continuing to speak out against the government. "It is not immediately clear whether Wei's trial is already underway," reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz, "but sources here think that the Xinhua report signals that the stage is set. By formally indicting Wei, Beijing must now go through the legal motions of a trial, even though it is not expected to be a public one. In Chinese courts...
...have been doing a lot of practicing the last few weeks, and we're really excited to get the season underway," senior Stacey Kellogg said...
...When the dynamics we see now in a state more divided than before, when processes are underway when people are taught and learn to dislike, distrust and hate, it's very hard to unlearn," Rudenstine said...