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...their small town.” Later, Balata is described as a “community established nearly 60 years ago,” and there are quotes around the word “camp,” as Bronshtein argues that because Balata contains concrete houses it cannot possibly be considered a refugee camp...
...couldn't the July 2005 bombings have been stopped? MI5 has broken its tradition of secrecy to explain the reasons on its website. The detailed exposition boils down to one issue: resources. In Britain today, the security services suspect 1,600 people of involvement in terrorism. They cannot all be kept under watch, all the time. And so the London trial exposed a calculation that nations all over the world fear. Jihadists are able to recruit new members to their ranks faster than security services can keep track of them. As London basked in spring sunshine, its peace depended...
...ignore other suggestions to improve the quality of life in the Allston community. Many of the community’s suggestions for public space, such as burying Soldiers Field Road, improving bridges over the Charles, and beautifying the area, are ideas that will benefit Harvard as well. Naturally, Harvard cannot, and should not try, to meet every request the community makes. Some proposals, such as providing daycare, are not good matches for Harvard’s resources or its mission as an educational institution. Focusing improving public education in Allston will not only allow Harvard to leverage its resources...
...corruption, mismanagement, and endemic warfare, nearly three billion people—half of the world—live on less than $2 per day, and nearly a billion people cannot read or write. The temptation is to assign blame to the legacy of Western colonialism, but work such as that of Dartmouth economists James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote complicates the picture. Their research, examining 77 islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and elsewhere, found that longer time spent as a colony translates into a better current standard-of-living and a lower infant mortality rate. Obviously, the abuses and depredations...
...sublimation of our intrinsic greed, cruelty, and penchant for violence into more a humane social ethos. Once again, as much as it may please us to romanticize the Rousseauian savage and see civilization as the source of all moral and spiritual malaise, an honest account of our ethical development cannot bear out our prelapsarian fantasies...