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Members of the Docket Committee, reached over the winter break, said that the cancellation should not be seen as a sign of a lack of dedication or interest on the part of faculty members...
...easier time at introducing reforms? It has always been easier for the left to reform, but that's because the right has never taken its ideas to their conclusion. The best example was in 1995 [when the government abandoned reforms after weeks of transport strikes]. Once you give a sign like that, you tell the French clearly: If I do a reform that you don't like, you go into the street, I promise I'll withdraw...
Between threats, tests and U.N.-sponsored sanctions, 2006 was a radioactive year for nuclear proliferation across the globe - and as 2007 gets under way, the action shows no sign of abating. A rundown of the world's nuclear powerhouses, and what to expect in the coming months...
...Islamists gone, many in Mogadishu feared an immediate return to the rule of the warlords - not least because the several of them are ministers in the Transitional Government. Growing anxiety may be measured by the sound of weapons being test-fired at the arms market inside Bakara - a sign of brisk commerce, say old Mogadishu hands - but so far, the peace has held...
...Back along the canal Saint-Martin, hundreds of people continue bedding down on freezing concrete and paving stones, inside thin nylon tents propped up on cardboard or wooden pallets as insulation. Along a stretch of embankment an improvised sign has renamed "SDF Boulevard," G?rard backs into and zips up his tent to prepare for what he good-naturedly anticipates will be "another night, and more people wandering by." Further upstream, in a series of more permanent homeless camps by the canal, visitors are greeted with far less cheer - and told to go "back down there if you want a show...