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...college doesn’t exist in a vacuum,” he said, “but is affected by the levels of drinking and laws about drinking around...
...Hizballah ostensibly rallied in solidarity with Syria, which faces overwhelming pressure from the international community to pull out its security forces. More importantly, perhaps, the event was a warning shot to anyone in the international community considering foreign intervention designed to remake Lebanon or to fill the vacuum that would result from a Syrian departure. Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah may be particularly concerned that the U.S. and France might try to send in an international stabilization force to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which mandates not only Syrian withdrawal, but also the disarming of all militias - an unmistakable...
...relief when she swaps her yolk-smeared clothes for a cleaning job. Yet it's here that she learns what it is to be truly invisible. When she ventures to speak in one office, "the balding man whose office it was looked about, frowning, as if the vacuum cleaner had developed a voice." The treatment at two Melbourne hotels where she works as a breakfast attendant is better, although she still finds herself serving breakfasts that cost more than she earned in one and a half hours. Her final job, working in two nursing homes, is eye-witness journalism...
...Faculty outcry against Knowles, Skocpol, and Verba’s plan leaves the Faculty, at least for now, without three of its most respected leaders. The responsibility for fixing this leadership vacuum falls squarely on Kirby. As Conant University Professor Stephen Owen pointed out at the meeting, “it is the Dean who leads his or her Faculty.” None of Harvard’s other eight Faculties is having such drastic problems, which points to a lack of leadership on Kirby’s part. Kirby needs to step up and be a more effective...
...hearing to air grievances resulting from the Vioxx and Celebrex snafu, it announced plans to create a new safety board to monitor drugs for unexpected side effects that show up after the drugs have gone on sale. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration finally moved to fill a one-year power vacuum at the top of the organization by nominating its acting chief, Dr. Lester Crawford, to be the FDA's permanent head...