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...English department’s decision to cancel Paulin’s lecture came less than two months after Summers had given a speech in Memorial Church warning about the rise of global anti-Semitism...
Unfair trade and debt policies have been siphoning away Africa’s wealth for decades. Now that the G8 (perhaps in response to our voices) has promised to cancel some of Africa’s debt, we need the same kind of intense vocal pressure to call for new trade policies that allow African nations, companies, and people to fairly negotiate and trade on the global markets. This is the only path out of poverty I can see for Africa, and it will be nearly impossible to achieve without the voices of concerned people in countries with the power...
...chief, as an adviser--and didn't discourage anyone from assuming that it reflected her feelings about the ineffectiveness of Bush's FEMA director, Michael Brown. When Bush decided to make a second trip into the state last week, Blanco learned about it from the media--and had to cancel her trip to visit evacuees in the Houston Astrodome. Blanco insists, however, that Washington and Baton Rouge are now on the same page. Bush, she said, "is disappointed by the response, given the immediacy of the need. We're both disappointed. But you know, that's the past...
...climate was close to impossible to work in, and that was a climate created by the junta." CHRIS BEYER, AIDS expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's decision to cancel its program in Burma due to new travel restrictions on humanitarian workers...
Neugeboren said that there are currently no plans to cancel the program. Several Harvard students who are currently living in London said that they had made no changes to their summer plans because of the attacks, and intended to stay in London for the completion of their programs...