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...global avatar of peace, as Annan in his best moments sought to be. Just as daunting is the challenge of cleaning house at the U.N., which has been dogged for years by mismanagement, inefficiency and corruption--crystallized in the oil-for-food scandal that tarnished Annan's tenure. Add to that the task of refereeing between the U.S. and countries like Russia and China, which are determined to chart their own course, and you get an idea why Annan calls it "the most impossible job in the world." "It would help if the next Secretary-General was a brilliant, compelling...
...Harkness Commons, which opened in 1950, is a creation of Walter Gropius, a pioneer of the Bauhaus School of design, “The Law School has such an eclectic mix of architecture on it,” DelVecchio said. “It’s hard to add a new building to the mix.” The academic wing of the new building will contain six classrooms with a 90-person capacity, and a seventh classroom with a capacity of 110. The new building will also provide spaces for student groups that are currently scattered across...
...like turning off lights and taking the stairs instead of the elevator. According to Sklodowska, an energy consumption drop of 1 percent decreases total carbon dioxide emissions by 50,000 lbs., the equivalent of taking 50 cars off the road for a year. “Very small actions add up in a community of thousands of people,” she said. “Even if we decrease consumption by 1, or 2, or 3 percent, it’s already making a huge difference.” Psychology Department administrative staffer Celeste M. Beck, who is William...
...lobbying group, Focus on the Family Action, said in a statement that the revulsion from Americans shows that society recognizes "limits to tolerance of our culture's anything-goes view of sexuality." Tom Minnery, the group's senior vice president of government and public policy, used the statement to add that the lurid episode might discredit "the politically correct notion fed to us by those on the left that obscenity is just another form of free speech...
...candidates: How would you have voted on last week's detainee bill, which allows for aggressive interrogation tactics to be used on terror suspects? "I probably would have voted yes," McCaskill said. Then, as the groans and jeers erupted from the European phone lines, she rushed to add: "I'm very uncomfortable about the lack of habeas corpus. But this was better than what the Bush Administration wanted." "Bulls---!" came a blunt retort from Paris...