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...broad University committee would still make mistakes—but such a leader would at least be endowed with the legitimacy and authority conferred by an open selection process where representatives of Harvard’s various constituencies have a formal voice. Harvard need not be a democracy, but basic accountability does not necessarily require a vote. Instead, to increase transparency, names of potential candidates for the Corporation should be released so that students, faculty and staff can express their preferences. Corporation members chosen in this fashion would then be accountable to the University in the broadest sense?...
...Angeles last week, and it had nothing to do with terror alerts or heightened security. The U.S. Army, eager to boost recruitment among 18-to-24-year-olds, is getting into the computer-game business. In July it will release two titles: Soldiers, a Sims-style basic-training exercise based on interviews with more than 700 real-life grunts; and Operations, a fast-paced online game that puts you behind the trigger--and teaches you teamwork--in a combat situation. Operations is built with the same software as the popular shooting game Unreal, but Army know-how has made...
...have witnessed, I am afraid, only the first first phase of a basic conflict that may well last for the balance of this century,” he wrote in his final presidential report...
...they beheaded one of the captives, Guillermo Sobero. They are still holding missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham. One Abu Sayyaf leader, Abu Sabaya, responded that the bounty gave the group more stature. THE U.S. Condemnation According to a report by Amnesty International, America's war on terror is threatening basic human rights to such an extent that in some categories the country is on a par with Cuba. The report cites the indefinite imprisonment of 300 men captured in Afghanistan at Camp X-Ray as an example of violation of human rights and condemned the detention without recourse...
...members," says a senior Hamas official. Close aides to Arafat doubt that the Palestinian leader actually wants the terror attacks to stop, since the Israeli retaliations that inevitably follow deflect attention from his pledges to reform his corrupt and dictatorial government. Arafat last week signed a long-delayed Basic Law, a kind of pre-state constitution, but in private he's avoiding committing himself to a date for the elections he has promised. "This man doesn't want to change," says an Arafat aide. Meanwhile, Israeli military officials say they have given up on him as a partner in containing...