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...yesterday, 402 people had registered with the portal or with its predecessor, CriticalMass, according to Lowell House Senior Tutor Jay L. Ellison, though it is not known how many of those people had provided their actual FAS password...
Former Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71, who was appointed by Lewis to handle student group matters after Epps’ departure, was nothing resembling the dissenting voice his predecessor had been...
Divisional deanships had been discussed during the tenure of Kirby’s predecessor as dean, Jeremy R. Knowles, and were included as an option in a 1994 report on the structure of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) administration...
...fact, China's leadership is divided on how to handle North Korea's threat. President Hu Jintao and his still influential predecessor, Jiang Zemin, must balance the country's powerful military and security ministries against the Foreign Ministry, which has been brainstorming to find ways to increase pressure on North Korea. The diplomats' hands were strengthened when the North walked away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty last January, broke into a stash of plutonium that had been secured by the U.N. and ousted inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. To force Pyongyang to the table, Beijing last March...
...Even Beijing seems confused. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have tried to color themselves as more responsive to the masses than their imperious predecessor Jiang Zemin, the man who anointed Tung. But at the same time, they've been careful not to cede too much authority. Hong Kong threatens to undo that careful balance between listening to what people want and caving in to their demands. Caught flat-footed by the scope of the protests and the discontent in Hong Kong, Beijing has blacked out on the mainland all news in local Chinese-language media of the historic...