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...this one from the Palestinian territories: “my brother, the oppressor [referring to Israelis] has crossed the line and the time has come for jihad and martyrdom.” Harvard, with its influence both on its own students and on students everywhere, must do more to combat these dangerous perceptions...
...move to hold student leaders accountable comes despite ongoing opposition from Undergraduate Council (UC) leadership. The UC supports the amnesty policy and the measures intended to combat hazing, according to Student Affairs Committee Chair Mike R. Ragalie ’09. But members are concerned that the policy on drug and alcohol abuse at parties is worded too vaguely and leaves club officers vulnerable to arbitrary disciplinary action...
...contend with missing a child's birth, a sibling's wedding or a parent's death. They face fatigue and frustration no matter the duration of stay. Their spouses suffer at home, and marriages fall apart under the strain of separation. And the stress of deployment in a hostile combat zone has a corrosive effect on discipline. Three more months may not seem that long to a civilian, but to a soldier already on the ground, it's another 90 days in which a lot could go wrong. "It's like running a race," says Chaplain Doug Weaver...
...while the technological path to climate-change action is clear, the politics are getting more complicated. As economic growth shifts to the developing world-especially Asia-so will future carbon emissions. Whether the world can effectively combat climate change will be determined by countries like Indonesia and India-and particularly China, which could pass the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter any day. European nations have staked out bold positions on carbon cutting, and momentum is growing in the U.S. for real climate-change legislation. But if developing countries choose to ignore global warming, even the most radical...
...this Iraqi government will get any better. But I'm doubtful about that." Contrast that with, say, John Edwards, who seemed utterly lost when I asked him a similar question a few weeks ago, finally settling on the opposite of Clinton's position. "You'd probably have to leave combat troops in the areas where combat was the greatest," he said...