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...Mysterious anthrax attacks and the rigid posture of constant vigilance have made the country uneasy. The American economy has received the brunt of the suffering. Already in decline before the attack, it continues to falter...
What all of the Harvard departments seem to share, regardless of their size or prestige, is a demand for new, quality faculty members. While this is an innocent enough request, the brunt of the departments’ pressure falls on the junior faculty to produce academic work worthy of tenure. Faculty members say that this is an inherent part of academia, but at Harvard this pressure is magnified. Though tenure is certainly a generic debate not unique to Harvard, there is always some “tenseness surrounding the fact that the future for junior faculty is uncertain...
...prisoners; Dostum's, 150. The Red Cross said it had recovered close to 400 bodies from the burned-out building. Workers ferried the corpses, dusted in ghostly white, into the desert to be buried in mass graves. Mohaqiq's force of ethnic Hazara Shi'ites, who had borne the brunt of the Taliban's murderous rule, would not specify how many captives they took or what had happened to them. But some 200 of the 900 Taliban fighters remained unaccounted...
...Furthermore, the committee’s data shows that an increasing number of custodians at Harvard are Latino or African-American, and they are increasingly likely to be recent immigrants. In other words, as Harvard has slashed wages, it has exploited those populations that have historically borne the brunt of workplace discrimination and, in the case of recent immigrants, have the least access to legal recourse. Harvard’s poverty wage policy smacks of institutional racism, because people of color are disproportionately affected by Harvard’s poverty wages, while being disproportionately under-represented in the faculty...
...Pakistan, for example, which will bear the brunt of the refugee load, has always been a reluctant partner in a war it had hoped would be brief and surgical. It is now increasingly plain that this will be neither, and the incident last week in which a U.S. Special Forces helicopter took ground fire near a base inside Pakistan highlighted the potential domestic crisis General Musharraf faces for offering his support. Not surprisingly, the general is urging the U.S. to end its bombing campaign by Ramadan. The same demand has been echoed at the opposite end of the region...