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...special envoy for Iraq (he was later tragically killed in Baghdad), and East Timor's former President Xanana Gusmão (now Prime Minister) declared that his country could be a model for other young, developing countries. Yet the billions poured into East Timor, and the thousands of aid workers who descended on tiny Dili, failed to solve the fledgling nation's critical problems. And when the world finally left, those fissures exploded...
...conventionalists gained the upper hand after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. Tens of thousands of Pakistanis charged across the border to aid their brothers in defending Islam, and Muslims around the world cheered the success of the mujahedin. The religious groups that backed jihad were given political prominence, and their coffers swelled with contributions and fees earned for training and supplying jihadis. The moderate religious groups who refused to sanction killing, even in the defense of Islam, were punished with political purgatory, from which they have yet to emerge...
Harvard officials said that providing financial assistance for gap years would give participating students an additional year of aid that would not be available for the typical Harvard undergraduate...
Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said that a similar initiative at Harvard would create “a fifth year of aid...
...want aid to be spread as equitably as possible, that would cut into that desire,” said Dingman...