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...real ramifications of America’s unwillingness to embrace different cultures firsthand runs deeper than a quick chuckle at a Woodbridge meeting—the international students club—and does more than bolster my condescending humor. I know it’s hard to believe, but the U.S. wields great power as the world’s dominant force and the remaining 6 billion of us are often affected by the decisions made by the White House...
...protest against police incompetence and allegations of a high-level cover up. The trial is expected to last three months. Dirty Secrets FINLAND The Helsinki trial of former Prime Minister Anneli Jäätteenmäki on charges of inciting the leaking of classified memos on Iraq to bolster her election campaign last year ended after three days, with a verdict expected within two weeks. Prosecutors alleged that Jäätteenmäki used secret documents to claim that then Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen had compromised Finland's neutrality by tacitly supporting the war. After narrowly winning...
HBS’s own analysis, according to Aisner, casts doubt on the data Watkins uses to bolster his arguments...
...fortress-like facade of Harvard’s iron gates has been cracked by the recent string of assaults around campus. Spurred by this alarming wave of attacks, Harvard has initiated a laudable campaign to bolster security. In the last few weeks, the College has extended shuttle and van operation hours, deployed more HUPD patrols, e-mailed safety alerts directly to students, launched the Harvard University Campus Escort Service Program (HUCEP) to replace the now-defunct SafetyWalk and created a centralized hotline (4-8237) to help students maneuver the new services and dispatch late-night police escorts. While Harvard?...
...Iraq but on how the European Union should be organized as it welcomes 10 new members. That was then. Now Europe's heavyweights need each other. Each wants to escape domestic troubles by looking statesmanlike, sitting down together instead of screaming, and using a display of E.U. clout to bolster their flagging fortunes back home. "A year ago, I would have said that a trilateral grouping like this would have little chance of getting off the ground," says Stephen Byers, a former British Cabinet Minister who is close to Blair and has been sounding out political opinion on the Continent...