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...appointment and said he plans to return to Harvard after his time in Washington. Raj Chetty ’00, who accepted a tenure offer from Harvard just months ago, will fill Cutler’s place in the department while he is on leave. “A central function of Harvard is to develop new ideas that are important, and...developing those ideas can involve translating them to real world policy,” said Economics Department Chair James H. Stock, who received Cutler’s official leave form yesterday. “In that sense...
...foreign troops and has urged that if they do come, they should be deployed along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. But Karzai's preferences are unlikely to decide the issue: the New York Times reports that "the Obama Administration would work with provincial leaders as an alternative to the central government" in order to reinforce stepped-up combat efforts. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West passage...
...combat brigades into Afghanistan starting this summer - may set the U.S. on a collision course with its client in Kabul. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned during congressional testimony this week that the U.S. would have to narrow its objectives, abandoning any ideas of turning Afghanistan into "a Central Asian Valhalla." The immediate priority of the Administration's new war plan for Afghanistan is simply to stop the Taliban's momentum...
...Called Myanmar by its military leaders, Burma derives its name from the Buddhist Burman (or Bamar) people. The country's largest ethnic group, the Burman historically lived in Burma's central and upper plains. But this patchwork country of 55 million is made up of more than 100 unique ethnicities. The isolation enforced by Burma's numerous mountains and hills helped nurture these culturally discrete groups, making it one of the most diverse countries in Southeast Asia, despite its relatively small geographic size. Here are five ethnicities, some of who have unsuccessfully waged long insurgencies against the central government...
...contract will allow Let’s Go to expand the number of titles it offers from 15 in the 2009 edition to 26 in the upcoming 2010 edition, to be released this November. The new titles will include updated guides for many Central and South American locations...