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...that said, the threat from Somalia needs to be kept in perspective. Al-Shabab is far smaller than the Taliban. "There are bigger gangs in L.A.," says the intelligence officer. It is prone to factionalism and has found it hard to garner support among ordinary Somalis. The U.N. has reported that al-Shabab receives funds and weapons from the Middle East and the Eritrean government. (Al-Shabab fights Ethiopia, and Ethiopia is Eritrea's archenemy.) But that support is small compared with the assistance that extremist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan have received from radical Islamists around the world. Finally...
...director of quantitative analysis at PayScale, said he believes that for the majority of Americans who don't attend elite schools, “the degree you get is a bigger influencer of your pay” than where you went to college. But if you get your giggles from Gatsby, don’t trade in the Barker Center for the Science Center just yet. Lee acknowledges that an English major from Harvard could end up making six figures—still, he insists that such a case would be an exception...
...past years, students spent roughly 40 hours on the mathematical modeling assignment over winter break, but this year’s calendar change meant that they faced a bigger time crunch before the end of the semester...
...BIGGER REWARD?...
...were getting a lot of work out of the way sooner, [with] a bigger reward at the end,” Romeo P. Alexander ’11 says. “If anything, last year was worse because professors assigned a ton of homework during Christmas break...