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...When the Prime Minister was prosecuting the case for war in Iraq in early 2003, he pointed to Saddam's cynical and cruel manipulation of the Oil-for-Food scheme. How did the P.M. know? In the background, in classified intelligence and diplomatic cables, a picture was emerging of fees and commissions paid to intermediaries - and then on to Baghdad's monster. When the dust began to settle after the invasion, a June 2003 memo from U.S. military Capt. Blake Puckett reported that every contract in the Oil-for-Food scheme contained a kickback to the regime of between...
...QAF—which she hopes will be a place “where queer Asian identities are not in the background but in the center focus”—is creating an unprecedented space for queer Asians by marrying the two identities, Ana Huang says...
...director of college advising at the Hotchkiss School, a boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Beck said that her office tries to “encourage students to look past the rankings.” She recommended that potential applicants base their college choices on their own academic and extracurricular background. Students “should be looking for schools that match their interests,” said Beck. Parents of college applicants, also surveyed by Princeton Review, ranked Ivy League rival Princeton first. Harvard finished third behind Stanford. The annual survey, released in conjunction with Princeton Review?...
...Though Cambridge currently spends about $5,000 more on each student than the national average, its test scores lag far behind other middle class cities in the state. Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 said he was surprised that “with [her] Harvard and Yale background,” it appeared Nolan had not thoroughly researched her motion, saying that looming deficits made Nolan’s proposal impractical. Nolan, who then distributed a handout to the board detailing funding proposals, said she was not advocating additional spending. “This is a redeployment...
...data was available, the College counted 52 undergraduate ethnic and cultural organizations—19 percent of the total number of registered student groups.And increasingly, according to one longtime observer, these groups are bridging ethnic boundaries.“I see more of an effort of students of all backgrounds at Harvard to reach out across racial and ethnic lines and to embrace people of different backgrounds,” said the Harvard Foundation’s director, S. Allen Counter, who has worked with cultural groups on campus for the past 25 years.The growth in the sheer number...