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...discussion was the first formal chance for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors to review the proposal, released Monday, which would require students to begin classes immediately after Labor Day and enable FAS to add a month-long academic term in January...
...turned out, Aristide ended up paying the price: early Sunday morning, he boarded a plane and left the country. His departure came after a week of steadily increasing signals from Washington that Aristide must go, after a month-long crisis that claimed more than 80 lives. Aristide, 50, the former priest once revered as the hope of Haiti's poor but now widely reviled as a corrupt and incompetent autocrat, vowed he would serve out his five-year term, which ends in 2006. But the Bush Administration added to Aristide's woes late last week, recommending that he step down...
...host of other emergencies facing Haiti. The constitutionally selected interim President, Supreme Court chief Boniface Alexandre, isn?t even recognizable to most Haitians. And he hardly looked enthusiastic about taking charge of a nation, the hemisphere?s poorest, whose only real ruler for the moment is anarchy. The month-long crisis has claimed almost 100 lives, including more than 10 killed by the chim?res (Creole for mythical monster) as they went on a revenge binge Sunday morning after Aristide?s departure, their bodies strewn about the capital...
Gross, who teaches Quantitative Reasoning 28, “Magic of Numbers,” said he himself was often frustrated by the month-long gap between the last lecture and the final exam...
...leading reformist party announced last week that it would boycott the Feb. 20 elections to choose a new parliament, charging that a panel dominated by hard-line mullahs had effectively rigged the outcome by disqualifying some 2,000 potential candidates, most of them reformists. The move capped a month-long drama marked by the resignation of 87 reformist parliament members in protest. After attempting to mediate a compromise, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei came down firmly on the side of the conservatives. Calling reformists "ignorant people" who parroted "the enemies of this nation," he sternly refused to reverse the disqualifications...