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...officials and food experts say there's a more fundamental reason why prices are rising: a world grown accustomed to plenty is increasingly unable to produce enough food to sustain itself. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the world's leaders in Rome this week that farmers would need to grow 50% more crops by 2030 in order to avert a massive global shortage of food. "There is nothing more degrading than hunger, especially when it is man-made," Ban said...
...Just because the College says there’s a ban doesn’t mean there’s actually a ban,” Abdelsamad said. “It’s really up to your master and resident dean...
...According to Adams HoCo Co-Chair Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09, the tightened regulations have not substantially altered events in Adams, since the House already did not serve hard liquor at Stein Clubs prior to the ban. He also noted that putting a rule on the books does not always translate into practice...
University President Drew G. Faust softly criticized the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy at the ROTC commissioning ceremony today, saying in her speech that all Harvard students should be allowed to serve in the military while declining to directly criticize the military's ban on openly-gay servicemembers...
...problems on the international front, domestic policy under the Bush administration has been horribly misguided—from the death penalty to gay marriage to gun laws. The inhumane practice of lethal injection and other forms of capital punishment are still tolerated, and the Supreme Court has yet to ban what is effectively state-sanctioned murder. The constitutional right to marry and the right to equal protection under the law are still denied to same-sex couples in the majority of states (with notable exceptions in Massachusetts, and more recently, California). High school shootings and other gun violence incidents...