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...walls are bright pastels: green, periwinkle, red, and orange. In the center of the large room, two young children, joined by two Harvard undergraduates, laugh in unison, shaking a bag full of ice, cream, and vanilla extract and dancing to “Walk Like an Egyptian...
...this afternoon, with explanations ranging from claims that he has lacked the ability to develop community to allegations that wealthy alumni have opposed his tenure due to his race, according to Albert F. Gordon '59, who is a former Harvard track captain and a significant donor to the Murr Center, the squash team's home...
...Until now, Chancellor Angela Merkel's new center-right government has steered clear of calling the Afghan mission a "war," given the German public's deep loathing of the concept. But this started to change in February when the government came up with a new way of describing its mission, saying German troops were now engaged in a "non-international armed conflict." Then came zu Guttenberg's admission that the 4,300 German soldiers currently on the ground are actually engaged in what the rest of the world generally considers a war. "In the past, the Afghan mission was sold...
...from the Pentagon last year for continued American use of the Manas air base, outside the capital, Bishkek, there was another condition: that the U.S. military stop calling it a base. The U.S. agreed, and so since last summer the busy hub has been officially known as the Transit Center at Manas - a Greyhound bus terminal for central Asia and the U.S. war in Afghanistan...
...While U.S. flights into and out of the, uh, transit center were initially suspended following the violent ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on Wednesday, April 7, limited operations into Afghanistan have resumed, Pentagon officials said Thursday. Acting Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva has said U.S. operations there can continue for now, although some of her fellow opposition leaders want the U.S. lease terminated or at least shortened. (See pictures of the Kyrgyzstan government's ouster...