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OPENNESS has to start at the top. The University should hold open Corporation meetings, liberalize the election process for the Board of Overseers--allowing students to vote--and make key investment decisions public on a quarterly basis. Such procedural changes will have profound effects on the University's ability to act responsibly in Cambridge and in the country. They will help...
Since 1986, HRAAA has nominated overseers candidates by petition in an attempt to force a Board vote on the divestment issue. But despite sporadic wins in the past, HRAAA officials charged yesterday that new election guidelines had weighted this year's competition against them...
...George Bush removed most of what leverage Washington still enjoyed over Beijing by approving a one-year extension of China's most favored nation trading status. Bush's move drew angry criticism from many members of Congress, including Republicans, but Capitol Hill is unlikely to muster the two-thirds vote of both chambers that would be needed to block the measure. Bush argued his case on economic grounds, claiming that to deprive Beijing of its MFN classification would harm the Chinese people, cost capitalist Hong Kong 20,000 jobs and $8.5 billion in exports of Chinese-made goods processed...
Support for the NEA is stronger in the Senate than in the House, probably because the whole House is up for re-election this year, whereas only a third of the Senate is. Plenty of folk on Capitol Hill have been sandbagged into acting as though a vote for the NEA is a vote for blasphemy, pederasty and buggery. They should think again. And so should those who imagine support of the arts would be better served by putting the NEA's budget in the hands of the states, an alternative Republican proposal that would trivialize arts funding...
With a 94% turnout and 85% of the vote in elections last week, President-elect Ion Iliescu of Romania was almost in the same league as his predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist tyrant who posted similar landslides in pro forma balloting. But this was a free election, complete with opposition candidates and Western observers. That must have made Iliescu's victory all the sweeter, despite opposition allegations of ballot-box fraud, voter intimidation and media monopolization by his incumbent National Salvation Front...