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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weeks ago, the Harvard Republican Club released the results of its college-wide student poll—on the question of official recognition for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps—in an e-mail that capped off a weeklong campaign on the issue. The results broke down the percentage of respondents “in favor” and “opposed” to official recognition, based on the number of students who had answered...

Author: By Jenny Zhang | Title: Morality and Conditional Support | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Brute Force Works Modern military wisdom says sheer force doesn't quell insurgencies, and that in the long run political and economic power-sharing along with social reconciliation are the only ways to end the fighting. But the Sri Lankan army eventually broke down the Tigers in an unrelenting military campaign, the final phase of which lasted more than two years. That sort of sustained offensive hasn't been tried anywhere, in decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Defeat Insurgencies: Sri Lanka's Bad Example | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...02pm, just minutes before the news broke of the tragic shooting of Justin Cosby, Dean Evelynn Hammonds sent out a reasonably important email...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Dean of Bad Timing | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...during four years of negotiations that followed, neither side could agree to a political compromise on autonomy for Tamil-majority areas. Confrontations between the Tigers and the government increased, and the assassinations resumed. The LTTE itself began to splinter, and one of Prabhakaran's top lieutenants, known as Karuna, broke away. With Karuna's help, the eastern provinces came under control of the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prabhakaran: The Life and Death of a Tiger | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...government's reaction then was to fine companies who broke new anti-pollution laws and, in some cases, give them tax credits for being better environmental citizens. Tax credits do not have much use in a recession when many companies do not pay taxes because they are losing money or do not have the spare cash to modify existing production habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Al Gore Can't Bring Attention to the Environment and Recession | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

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