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...Parliamentary Sovereignty that it couldn't care less about student opinion? After all, when the council's only sins were bumbling and incompetence, most students couldn't have cared less about them. But the insolent and smug dismissal of a petition with strong popular support is enough to halt the council's slide into irrelevance and raise the ire of heretofore (justifiably) uninterested students. The council can surely expect a jump in refund requests next semester; and, thankfully, Gabay, unlike his autocratic mentor in Kigali, has no well-armed Presidential guard to help out with dues collection...
WILLIAM HANCE'S APPOINTMENT with the electric chair was set for 7 p.m. Thursday. On Wednesday, the Georgia board of pardons and paroles rejected Hance's appeal for clemency. The next day, both a state and federal court refused to halt the execution; then the U.S. Supreme Court, after a two-hour stay, denied Hance's appeal. Soon after, Hance was strapped into Georgia's electric chair. At 10:10 p.m. he was pronounced dead. The legal skirmishing had gained him exactly 190 extra minutes of life...
Such a scenario is what prompted the New York Stock Exchange in 1988 to add circuit breakers that temporarily halt automated transactions when the Dow Jones average rises or falls more than 50 points in a day. But even if the mechanisms work temporarily, some experts caution that all the computerized derivatives and other vehicles that Wall Street has developed since the Crash of '87 could keep shell-shocked buyers from returning to the market, out of fear of a new wave of selling. "A circuit breaker shuts off the overload," says Bruce Greenwald, a finance professor at the Columbia...
...singing is mostly fine, with opera diva Shirley Verrett gloriously belting the score's two standards, June Is Bustin' Out All Over and You'll Never Walk Alone. The dances by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, who died during rehearsals, are bold and lively, although they bring the storytelling to a halt. The race-blind casting, if historically inaccurate, does not jar because this is clearly a fable...
...London-based Environmental Investigation Agency called on nations to impose sanctions against Taiwan for failing to halt illicit trade in endangered species. EIA investigators offered evidence of the open sale of tiger parts, including skins, and a host of other banned animal products. Since then, illegal wares have disappeared from display shelves, but subsequent investigations by several environmental groups suggest that potions made from tigers, rhinos and other endangered species are still readily available. As recently as this February, an undercover probe sponsored by Earth Trust in four Taiwanese cities found that 13 of 21 pharmacies visited offered tiger-bone...