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President-elect Drew G. Faust announced her intention to create the position of executive vice president in a letter to the University's deans, vice presidents, governing board members, and other administrators on Monday...
Elections for the Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA), the school’s student government, will come to a close on Monday after almost a week of intense debates between candidates for the hotly contested board positions. The election, in which three candidates are competing for the presidency, highlights the complexities of bringing together thousands of Extension School students enrolled in a broad range of degree and non-degree programs into a single community. Carlos De La Rosa, a full-time student in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) program in information technology; Craig Sams, a Bachelor of Liberal Arts...
...interested in talking to the media.” Halutz did not respond to e-mailed requests for comment yesterday, though he released a short statement praising the commission and calling the report a “milestone,” according to a report on Monday in Haaretz, a major Israeli daily newspaper. “I’m convinced that the members of the commission did their job faithfully and out of a desire to reach the truth,” he said, according to the paper. Halutz’s successor as chief of staff, Gabriel...
Looking out at the 120,000 demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israeli democracy appears to be alive and kicking. The protest was sparked by last Monday's report by the official Winograd Commission that was scathing in its critique of Olmert's disastrous leadership during last summer's war against Hizballah, which cost the lives of more than 150 Israelis. Even Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah - presumably in a bunker somewhere in Beirut - expressed his admiration for the Israeli government. "They study their defeat in order to learn from...
...Even without the ominous prospect of military meddling, the stakes are high indeed. The threat of further political turmoil is already spooking investors, with Turkish shares tumbling 8% on Monday alone. A political impasse threatens to slow or reverse democratic reforms that were under way to meet European Union norms, and could further complicate Turkey's strained relations with Europe. Some E.U. membership negotiations are already on hold, and they are not likely to resume if the government cannot agree on who's in charge. Senior E.U. official Olli Rehn has said Turkey's handling of the crisis will...