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...nothing-and, even more sadly, the President is destined to win. Congressional Democratic leaders admit privately they'll give Bush his appropriation when the current Kabuki is over. The question is, What, if any, restraints can they put on funding for the troops? Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin says the next version of the bill should tie continued funding to progress on reforms the Iraqi government has promised and failed to meet: "We'll send him a bill with economic consequences for the Iraqis if they don't meet their own benchmarks in 60 to 90 days...
Imagine a world in which you can be your own God. You can choose your own gender, color, size, or even species. Instead of driving your car to work, you can fly. Today, you can do all this from the chair of your computer desk with a program called Second Life...
...foreign policy issues, nearly a quarter of the polled youth prioritized stabilizing Iraq, 17 percent cited genocide in Darfur, and 4 percent said they were most concerned with the “war on terrorism.” Marina Fisher ’09—the student co-chair of the IOP survey group—said that the strong youth concern for Darfur underscores the disparity between the interests of youth and government action. “The amount of attention the government is giving it is relatively small [compared] to how significant it is with young people...
...good year. “The only negative reaction I’ve heard is that they are a band that hasn’t had a hit in a long time, since our middle school days,” admits S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, Chair of the College Events Board. But beauty is in the eyes of the pop-loving beholder: “To be honest I think that’s an example of why Third Eye Blind is such a good choice,” says Goldenberg. And if you?...
...participate in a cross-university effort to make medicine more affordable for the poor at a packed event yesterday. “There are 10 million deaths each year from conditions for which effective, affordable prevention and treatment exist,” said Jim Yong Kim, who is now chair of the department of social medicine at the Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Partners in Health, an organization devoted to improving health care for the poor. Kim’s talk, entitled “Missing Medicines: Making University Drugs Accessible to the Global Poor...