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...said, pointing to chronic space shortages at the GSE, which professors say lacks adequate room for classes, research, and meetings. “I’m going to do my best to advocate an early move.” McCartney also said she hoped to make increasing financial aid and fellowships a top priority of her tenure. Summers’ permanent appointment of McCartney prompted a spontaneous standing ovation of the GSE faculty, according to professors present at the outgoing president’s announcement. “As I said to the Ed School faculty today, some choices...
...contribution to [fighting] what I think is the biggest threat to the planet,” Thompson said. Another fellow with a physics doctorate from Harvard, Alex Johnson, will work in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences with Assistant Professor Shriram Ramanathan, developing technologies that will hopefully aid a shift from oil-based to hydrogen-based energy. “[The fellows] are scattered through the university,” said Minard. “There is a fairly wide array of topics.” The other five fellows are Peter Alagona, a doctoral candidate in history...
...North Korea can effectively stop the flow of refugees. If China really wants to stem illegal border crossings and help the North Korean people, a great step in the right direction would be spurring its basket-case neighbor to embrace reform and globalization rather than just providing generous aid to prop up the regime. If that happened, the underground railroad created by American Christians would eventually grind to a halt, a result that I am sure they and other activists would warmly welcome. Chen Liang Singapore Although the human-rights violations being committed in North Korea are sickening, they...
...Slowly but surely, Gaddafi became appalled by the impotence of his brother Arabs, who failed to come to his aid when the West imposed sanctions and who invited the U.S. into the region to settle the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990. Once Gaddafi's Palestinian friends began negotiating with Israel, he began focusing on Libya's African rather than Arab alliances. In 2001, he hosted the inaugural meeting of the new African Union...
...ability to deliver may depend on the extent to which donor countries deliver on their aid pledges - the previous interim government only received $850 million of the $1.4 billion it was pledged by the international community. Préval is counting on agricultural development and tourism to jumpstart the economy, but knows that Haiti has grown increasingly dependent on foreign aid to keep the economy afloat...