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...achieved remarkable success in feeding and sheltering refugees and in eradicating smallpox, to cite only two accomplishments. While a failure in Bosnia, peacekeeping has been effective in other parts of the world. But even the U.N.'s fiercest defenders agree that on the whole the swarm of agencies, funds, commissions and regional offices has operated with an inefficiency that can no longer be tolerated. The entire U.N. system spends about $10.5 billion a year. That's not a lot of money, considering the U.N.'s mission (it's about one-third of New York City's budget). Even...
...reducing carbon-dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. In Mexico 18 different U.N. agencies are supposed to be running programs to help solve some of the country's worst problems, such as environmental pollution and drug smuggling. But Mexican officials working on the same troubles are hard put to cite anything significant that the U.N. agencies have done to help...
Harvard Americorps participants are united in their praise for the National Service Program. Specifically, they cite the way in which Americorps provides opportunities for students to serve local communities while still making money for college...
Tutorials offer a similar experience, but again, not every department offers them as full courses. In honors concentrations such as History and Literature and History of Science, small tutorials are the focus, and undergraduates often cite these intense courses as the best part of their Harvard studies...
...lose sight of the fact that this murky, deeply troubling incident has yet to be adequately investigated, and the Justice Department could be accused of stonewalling. Members of Congress are legitimately under pressure to examine this incident." Nonetheless, if the hearings are held this fall, many witnesses will likely cite the ongoing criminal investigation and plead the Fifth Amendment. "Specter won't get good testimony and it will be embarrassing for the FBI," Shannon predicts. The Justice investigation probably won't be finished before Christmas...