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...hope now is that Beijing's high-profile policy shift late last week will quickly have a tangible impact, and not be seen merely as a PR ruse designed to limit damage to China's prestige and economy. But in the provinces, faith in the country's leadership has already been hurt as the outbreak has been allowed to spread virtually unchecked. "How can we trust Beijing when they lied to us for so long," asks a respiratory specialist surnamed Ma from the western province of Gansu, who is now reviewing recent pneumonia cases in his hospital...
...suppose there exists a club with the purpose of fostering community among students of a particular race or gender, or with the purpose of promoting the issues of that community of students. It seems perfectly logical to allow that group to limit its leadership to members who can best fulfill those purposes. And it also seems logical that in order to fulfill the purpose of community, one must be a member of that community in other words, belong to that race or gender...
...Princeton’s Kavitha Krishnamurthy pushed sophomore No. 42 Courtney Bergman to the limit before Bergman finally prevailed in a third-set tiebreak...
...rotating six-month presidency of the Union, which small states want to preserve. The two also brokered an E.U. declaration calling for "a central role" - Chirac had previously said "the central role" - for the United Nations in Iraq; that appears more compatible with Washington's desire to limit U.N. involvement. Bush's call last week for a lifting of U.N. sanctions against Iraq was greeted with some consternation at the Quai d'Orsay: officials there had long predicted that the Americans would recognize the need for U.N. action on that front, but hadn't expected Bush to acknowledge...
Even when they do not totally ban outsiders, restrictions that limit House residents to one guest also inhibit friends dining together. If three or more friends, all from different Houses, want to eat together, they must eat in one of the rare unrestricted dining halls—even if no one in the group lives in the House. At the river, this means that Quincy and Winthrop are the only centrally located meeting spots for groups of friends, or for group meetings, and this has placed an undue strain on the dining hall staffs and students of these Houses...