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...need to bolster economic relations with the U.S. was a major factor for Thailand to send troops to Iraq. Since dispatching soldiers, Thailand, which sells 20% of its exports to the U.S., has received a basket of goodies from America, including a bilateral free-trade treaty and eligibility to bid for reconstruction projects in Iraq...
...more variety in social life with events like movies, hypnotists and concerts,” Blickstead says. The council authorized the Harvard Concert Commission to begin negotiations with nine artists at its Feb. 29 meeting, and Busta Rhymes has just accepted the UC’s $40,000 bid. In addition to concerts, Mahan hopes to foster social life by playing on class-year divisions. The UC has plans to have a night at the Kong for juniors, a night at Gillian’s and a barbecue for sophomores and Loker nights for first-years. And Mahan?...
When asked if he has encountered rejection, Hunter A. Maats ’04, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Mather House, responds, “What haven’t I been rejected from?” He then lightheartedly enumerates his failures at Harvard, among them an unsuccessful bid for the Undergraduate Council presidency, a failed Class Marshal election, a turned down Rockefeller grant application, zero job offers and rejection from numerous parties and women. Is that all? Not even close. The Din and Tonics denied him a spot five times, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals rejected him four times...
...Location, agents are not the buyers' friends--they shrewdly hide flaws in houses and connive to jack up the bids. Hosts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help their clients play hardball in negotiating (an operatic conflict the U.S. shows inexplicably ignore). This is probably a cultural difference; the American shows are much sunnier about the market as a benevolent force. Not that Location's buyers and their families are necessarily innocent either. One buyer's sister persuades her not to bid on a prospective house because, we learn, Sis wants the place for herself. Backbiting relatives, subterfuge and money squabbles...
Charles Krauthammer's essay "Why 9/11 Belongs In The Campaign" [March 15] rightly stated that Bush should be able to use 9/11 in his re-election bid because the terrorist attacks occurred on his watch. However, if the President continues to exploit images related to the attacks, he must be open about the entire 9/11 issue. Bush opposed creation of the independent commission to investigate government actions leading up to 9/11, and he has only reluctantly been cooperating with the investigation. The American people are mature enough to accept the truth of 9/11. Bush needs to let the commission...