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...YORK—On a tranquil Sunday morning on the Columbia University campus, an unbefitting line forms outside of Uris Hall. Inside, security teams inspect bags, check IDs, and wield metal-detecting wands at perplexed students, professors, and members of the community. But those entering the building aren’t here to see a world leader or big-name celebrity—the day’s attraction is a conference addressing anti-Semitism charges that have riven the Columbia community recently...
Legislators wield one potent weapon: money. In January, Utah state senators quietly red-lined funding for a $37 million digital-learning center at Utah Valley State College. The senators were worried about "the drift of the campus," says UVSC president Bill Sederburg, who fielded complaints from them about an Oct. 20 campus speech by Michael Moore, a student production of The Vagina Monologues and a course on queer theory in literature. "The legislators are saying 'We don't want the college to go too far and lose touch with the community.' But we have an obligation to protect academic freedom...
While Ross expressed tempered optimism about the prospects for peace, he said that Abbas lacks the authority that Arafat alone could wield...
...emphysema at age 79, the reaction was like that to the passing of a head of state--specifically, Ronald Reagan's last year. On Tonight, Carson did a dead-on impression of Reagan, but the resemblance did not end there. Both men defined how to accrue and wield power in the mass-media age. They were two of the last broadcasters: Carson, compared with today's niche entertainers; Reagan, contrasted against today's red-and-blue-fixated political micromarketers. Both were Midwesterners transplanted to California who merged their coastal charm and Middle American affability...
...will not be the presidency or the prime ministership or the Cabinet. It will be the Assembly." The first task of the 275-member legislature will be to select a President and two Vice Presidents, who in turn will name a Prime Minister. Although the Prime Minister is to wield a great deal of executive power, all major decisions will need to be cleared with the Assembly and the President, both of whom will have the power to dismiss the government. "The main thing is that Iraqis will be able to feel that, through the Assembly, they can put pressure...