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...except that they "cannot block" any consensus among the current 15. However that ambiguous provision is interpreted, candidate countries are in the uncomfortable position of wanting to contribute to the discussion without being tagged as whiners. Says Matjaz Nahtigal, one of Slovenia's delegates: "Our best bet is to establish ourselves through our contributions as responsible and valuable participants...
...before such growth leads to students earning degrees through online course work, University President Lawrence H. Summers will establish a committee of professors to consider if the meaning of a Harvard degree depends on physical presence in Harvard’s classrooms...
TIME has learned that the FBI is poised to send agents back into Yemen because of intelligence reports that al Qaeda loyalists may try to establish bases in that nation's lawless areas. Yemen, along with Pakistan, is considered top priority by the FBI and the intelligence community as they try to interdict fleeing Bin Laden operatives scrambling to find sanctuary...
...counterintelligence officials believe that some top al Qaeda figures, such as Zawahiri and Abu Zubayda, have survived the war in Afghanistan and are now looking beyond their personal survival to establish new bases of operations where they can plan, communicate with far-flung cells, raise and disperse funds and move about with some security. As US strategists see it, al Qaeda members will be looking to establish safe bases in nations that are politically and militarily weak, corruptible and chaotic, yet with enough vestiges of civilization so that they can get in and out of the country...
...part of their effort to establish the new queer studies committee, Faculty plan to cite the existence of queer studies programs at other universities...