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Discuss “Executive Privilege”

It's easy to get tunnel vision when the semester is in mid-swing. Life-changing events happening on the other side of the Earth can pass unnoticed here. Storms dumped more than 6 feet of snow in Tajikistan last Friday, but conversations in the UC didn't touch the subject. Tsunami relief fundraising on the tiny island nation of Tonga yielded $22,887 -- the per capita income is a mere $2000 there -- but I didn't overhear anyone mention it on the 61C.

For all practical purposes, there's really no reason for us to hear of these events. But every now and then, it?s good to get a taste of what?s happening in a place most people have never been and will never go.

A prime example right now is amid the Himalayas, in Nepal. On February 1, the king...

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