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...Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together. We must always examine the ways in which we protect it. For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat...
...officer in charge, Lieut. General Vladimir Shamanov - who is named in the ECHR's findings - has been chosen to head Russia's paratrooper unit. "A commander in this position should have a firm commitment to upholding international humanitarian law," said Holly Cartner, the HRW director for Europe and Central Asia, in a report released on May 28. "It's hard to understand how an officer with oversight for operations that have resulted in numerous violations of humanitarian law has been considered qualified to assume this role...
...physical matter.While several major financial institutions have disappeared, leaving experts to sift through the wreckage, many Harvard professors said that the backlash on quantitative models was largely unwarranted. Furthermore, they say quantitative models have become so prevalent in recent years—used everywhere from hedge funds to central banks—that drastically curtailing their use would cause more harm than good.Laibson calls pundits’ suggestions that the failures of risk modeling demonstrate the failure of mathematical modeling at large an “extreme overreaction” to the events of recent months...
...been before the Ad Board. “People don’t have anywhere to go for impartial advice.”Wong mounted a failed UC campaign alongside Charles T. James ’09-’10 that had Ad Board reform as a central tenet.Richard M. Losick, a biology professor who has been a vocal advocate of Ad Board reform and has served as an advisor to students who have gone in front of the board, agreed that resident deans often serve in a conflicted role.“The resident dean, who is supposed...
...about the “three buckets” and the need to set priorities in everything we do. In the first and smallest bucket go our highest priorities, those things so important we might need to increase spending on them. In the second medium-sized bucket go things central to the core mission of FAS that cannot be reduced. In the third and largest bucket is everything else, and much of it will have...