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...focused on serving the student body during the hectic campaign season. “The semester’s agenda has been set,” said Glazer. “My job and Clay’s job is to make sure it’s business as usual.” In other business, the UC lent its lobbying support to the South Asian Studies Initiative, which advocates centralizing resources, expanding offerings, and creating a certificate program in South Asian Studies. The council also passed two other resolutions, one concerning the creation of a student advisory committee...
...season for family travel--especially when there's a new member to spoil. But for new parents, heading home for the holidays can be fraught with even more headaches than the usual seasonal hassles. "Everyone wants to travel during the holidays, but if parents are really freaked out about having to visit grandparents when the baby is only 3 weeks old, I encourage them to have their in-laws come to them instead," says Dr. Marlene Coleman, author of Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children and a pediatrician in practice for more than 30 years. Still, Coleman says, more...
...some other supra-national and super-sovereign entity, then we could get wonderfully diverse opinions about Internet governance, and China could better censor websites that contain words such as “liberty” or “Tiananmen Square.” Luckily, the usual gang of anti-Americans didn’t succeed at the Summit. Instead, there were a few vapid bureaucratic proclamations about healing the technology gap between rich and poor nations by bridging the “digital divide” (a phrase so overused that it, too, may require an acronym before long...
...this variety series, debuting in 1976, truly transcended demographics with its wacky skits, musical numbers and sharp show-biz humor. It's also fun as a field guide to '70s celebrities (Avery Schreiber! Mummenschanz!). Season 1 takes a while to hit its stride--the corn crop is heavier than usual in the early episodes--but by the end, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew et al. are fully fleshed, or rather fuzzed...
...Second-Term Blues "A Time to Regroup" might be interpreted as implying that George W. Bush's problems are just the usual stuff that all Presidents face during their second term [Nov. 7]. But this situation is not merely ordinary second-term burnout. It's not like everything was hunky-dory during Bush's first term and now his Administration is in trouble because of bad luck and circumstances beyond his control. What has happened is that all the horrible moves he made during his first term?invading Iraq, appointing cronies to top positions, insisting on secrecy, manipulating the media...