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...where I think it should be,” she said after the meeting. Jack Haverty, a former teacher in the district and president of the Cambridge Teacher’s Association, said he approved of Fowler-Finn’s “serious” approach to the job and lack of “political games.” “As far as I’m concerned, he’s doing a very good job,” he said. —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...
...This research may yield basic insight into how to create replacement organs, or even a new approach at replacing a soldier’s [blood cell producing] system” he said, adding that such technology would have broad implications not limited to treating war wounds...
...insufficient weight to the interests of the middle class.” He said that lapses in moral leadership, raw power, and economic strength have caused the country to fall from a position of global strength, and he called for a “new philosophical approach to foreign policy.” When asked by a student which current presidential candidate he supports, Summers responded, “I’m a Democrat. The Democrats have two candidates. Each would make a superb president.” Students were generally positive about Summers’ appearance, half...
...organizers of the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement, who had been hoping that if the Dalai Lama could not lend his support to the march, he would at least refrain from opposing it. Four of the five organizations involved in the movement oppose the Dalai Lama's "middle path" approach of seeking dialogue with the Chinese leadership in search of a "genuine" autonomy for Tibet. They want direct action to seek independence from China, and they want to it now, while the world is watching China as it prepares to host the Olympic Games this summer...
Last fall, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker suggested that Iran may be lessening its militant activities in Iraq. He pointed to the cease-fire by Sadr, speculating that Iran may have had a hand in convincing the Shi'a warlord to take that approach. Crocker noted that rocket attacks against the Green Zone had dropped and wondered aloud whether Tehran was being suddenly more cooperative in Iraq...