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...While in Hanoi, President Bush said, "We tend to want there to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going to take a while." I would like to remind everyone that it was the Administration that said invading Iraq and securing the country were going to be a walk in the park, an affair of a few months at most. Philip de Louraille Los Gatos, California...
China has the most difficult task of all the participants in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program that begin Monday in Beijing. As the chief patron of the North Korean regime - China supplies up to half the country's food requirement and even more of its daily oil needs - Beijing has long been seen as the only party with any real influence over the actions of the erratic Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. But Kim gave his backers in Beijing a rude surprise on October 9, when North Korea announced that it had tested a nuclear...
...Before the database existed, Fisher says, Harvard had to contact each school individually, a task simplified by the consortium...
...week after undergraduates overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on administrators to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, supporters of the proposal are left with the daunting task of figuring out how to implement the mandate from the student body. The resolution, which passed by a nearly 9-to-1 margin, calls on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to reduce its emissions to a level 11 percent lower than its 1990 output by 2020. That’s just a one percent larger reduction than Yale has committed to make in the same time period. But it?...
...exam in order to join general education; they will have to tailor their courses to adhere to a new philosophy of contemporary relevance to a normal citizen. But the Faculty’s most recent discussions, and last week’s alterations to the Preliminary Report by the Task Force on General Education, show an increasing disregard for the guiding philosophy of the new “Core” and an undue focus on how many literature requirements students will face and what specifically those literature requirements will be titled. Yet if the Preliminary Report?...