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Harvard has included international development consulting under a variety of names since the mid-1950s. From 1962 until HIID's birth, Harvard's Development Advisory Service did the bulk of this type of work...
According to Philbin, Harvard has a respectable record since it houses the bulk of its students, while other area universities do not. He says some colleges have facilities that are inadequate for their student populations, forcing thousands to live off campus...
...bloody as it may be, the battle for Grozny may be primarily symbolic. "It's this medieval symbolism of planting your flag on a city and claiming you've won," says Zharakovich. "In a war against guerrilla forces, capturing a city doesn't mean anything." The bulk of the Chechen forces are already in the mountains to the south, and constant ambushes and attacks behind Russian lines signify the limits of territorial control in this war. Still, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin desperately needs a way to declare victory in the popular military campaign that he hopes will carry...
...history of counterinsurgency warfare suggests that defeating the Chechen guerrilla forces requires a political strategy to win over the bulk of Chechnya's civilian population. Following Mao Zedong's analogy that guerrillas are fish and a sympathetic civilian population is the water in which they swim, the art of counterinsurgency is to poison the water by turning civilians against the guerrillas. And Russia had reason for optimism going into the campaign. "Many Chechens are opposed to the Islamic militants like Shamil Basayev and Khattab, who the Russians claim to be targeting," says Meier. "Even more may have been prepared...
...fall within days. Western news reports on Wednesday quoted Russian officers describing the heavy casualties their units have suffered in Grozny, and the Russian media has begun covering funerals of soldiers killed in the campaign. Although seizing Grozny would be more of a symbolic victory than anything else - the bulk of the Chechen separatist army has already retreated into the mountains - even that now looks unlikely without suffering heavy casualties. And one of the reasons the Russian electorate has been so gung-ho on the current Chechnya operation - and Putin - is the impression that Russia is winning while minimizing...