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Though Harvard has made much progress considering its white-dominated past, concerns of the stigmatizing of minority groups raised in the aftermath of the Quad incident suggest that Harvard still has work to do in building a fully cohesive and racially harmonious community...
...soggy aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, during a year where there were more storms than official names, one might expect that coastal residents in the U.S. have fortified their homes; renegotiated their flood, wind and storm insurance; and squirreled away supplies for the six-month 2007 Atlanta hurricane season, which begins June...
...April, the Indian government released the results of a survey conducted in 13 states, which indicated that one in two children had been sexually abused, often by people familiar to them. Interpol warns against molesters masquerading as aid workers to get close to poor, orphaned children in the aftermath of natural catastrophes such as the 2004 tsunami. Even under normal circumstances, cultural norms and social structures complicate matters. Most Asian societies are both sexually repressed and respectful of elders-a double whammy when it comes to dealing with sex offenders. From a young age, children are taught not to talk...
...Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza. The accords were meant to give shape, at last, to that sense of national identity that had been growing since the war and to lead rapidly to a Palestinian state. But for Jews and Arabs alike, Oslo and its aftermath proved to be new disappointments. Israel sped ahead with yet more settlements in the West Bank, and Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretly signed off on terrorism directed against the Israelis...
...Earlier this month, former CIA director George Tenet published his memoir, which was highly critical of the way the Bush Administration, and particularly the Pentagon, managed the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. In his memoir, Tenet wrote that two decisions doomed the reconstruction of the country - the demobilization of the Iraqi Army and the de-Baathification of the Iraqi government, both of which were approved by Rumsfeld...