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With departments seeking to “cut the fat” from their budgets to the tune of a 15 percent reduction requested by the FAS administration, bagels and bacon will be the first to go. Rather than eliminating central costs such as employees and course materials, department chairs are looking to cut down on non-essential expenses such as food and office supplies as they set the next year’s budget...
...that of the campus in general.“It’s a really encouraging piece of news for the administration to make our community represented,” said Pforzheimer resident Alneada D. Biggers ’10—who made House Master diversity a central issue in her unsuccessful bid for Undergraduate Council vice president this fall—of the Winthrop picks. “It makes me really proud of the dean of our college.”—Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached at bassad@fas.harvard.edu...
Petraeus, who is head of U.S. Central Command and was named a runner-up for Time Magazine’s 2007 Person of the Year, oversaw multinational forces in Iraq from February 2007 until September of last year, and is often credited with effectively overseeing the implementation of the U.S. “surge” strategy in the Middle East...
...We’re very excited to have [Petraeus] coming because it means so much to our students,” Hall said. “As the commander of U.S. Central Command, he oversees areas that will be relevant to them as they move out into the Army...
...takes a certain skill to lose money on an opium field in Afghanistan. Afghan filmmaker Siddiq Barmak lost about $97,000 on his. For the making of his latest film, Opium War, which is set in a poppy field, Barmak had found the perfect site - a lonely hilltop in central Afghanistan, framed by the snow-covered peaks of nearby mountains. With the stunning vision of pink poppies swaying against the slopes of the Hindu Kush in mind, he finally obtained permission from the government to plant the illegal crop. Then he and his crew got to work building...