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...would be an unprecedented display of illegitimate administrative intervention for funding intended for the Undergraduate Council from undergraduates to be withheld,” Petersen said...
...seems like just the latest in a trend of University Hall putting the appearance of propriety before a pragmatic approach to student safety and being completely dismissive of student input. Last spring’s new alcohol policy was similarly forced on students; canceled meetings, secret reports, and withheld information have become the norm. Students are making a genuine effort to work with University Hall, yet the College administration’s modus operandi shows a blatant lack of respect for the student body it so frequently praises.Quite simply, University Hall’s behavior has to change...
...been vastly more successful in the past 40 years or more than anyone could have possibly expected,” he said. Schelling, who is the Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, also discussed five wars since World War II in which the U.S., Soviet, U.K., and Israeli governments withheld the use of nuclear weapons despite danger that they would ultimately lose. Moving on to the current situation of nuclear proliferation, Schelling said that he believes both North Korea and Iran have the capability to develop nuclear weapons, and said he hopes these two countries will “think...
...fact that recognizing and acknowledging a familiar person is such a complex thing made it all the more remarkable in early August when scientists announced that a 38-year-old man had managed to pull it off. The man, whose identity was withheld, had suffered severe brain damage in a 1999 mugging and spent the past eight years in the dark cognitive well that neuroscientists call a minimally conscious state. Improbably, however, he can now greet both his parents. He can identify objects, hold very brief conversations and watch movies, and he recently recited the first 16 words...
...officers, Ba'athist officials, and the Sunni insurgency - gathered for a catered dinner beside the hotel's outdoor pool. Several, including a high-ranking former military officer now overseeing Ba'athist resistance activities in his region, talked openly, if carefully, about strategy, although some asked that their names be withheld. ("We are not afraid," said the former Iraqi army colonel, as waiters delivered the main course of steak and carrots, "but we do not want to give the [Shi'a] militias justification to kill us.") They said victory was in the air; one delegate celebrated the looming U.S. withdrawal over...