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According to HCGHAC member Krishna M. Prabhu ’11, the group decided to push for something that would not be a financial burden on the university but would still increase access to essential medicine. The South Asian Men’s Collective, the South Asian Women’s Collective, the Black Men’s Forum and the Association of Black Harvard Women co-sponsored the campaign and assisted in publicizing Saturday’s events...
...traditional role for the leader of the junior coalition party. The biggest foreign policy issue confronting the incoming government is Afghanistan. Germans are increasingly unhappy with their troops' participation in the NATO mission there, but the U.S. and other countries are keen to see Germany shoulder more of the burden. (Read "Afghanistan: Looking for the Way Ahead...
...Some Arab Americans worry that the welcome mat is becoming frayed: grim economic times may make it harder for Iraqi refugees to find jobs, making them a long-term burden on the community. But the influx of Iraqis shows no sign of slowing. "These are people who are fleeing mass killings," says Imam Qazwini. "Economic depression is not a big concern for them...
...government. During Young's reign and for many years thereafter, the possibility of city-suburban cooperation - which is to say, black-white cooperation - was close to nil. The black city didn't want white suburbanites telling it what to do, and white suburbanites had no interest in assuming the burden of a black city. (Read a TIME postcard from Detroit...
...ideas or robust new approaches to international problems. "There has been a passive consensus on foreign policy issues," says Jan Techau, director of the Europe Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations. "But that passivity is inappropriate now, as Germany faces increasing demands from NATO - for example, burden-sharing in Afghanistan and on the general discussion about the future of NATO." (See pictures of the Berlin Wall...