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...many ways, Harvard’s campus provides a perfect venue for working to combat the “self-segregation” endemic to predominantly white colleges. One campus organization that works directly against isolating impulses is the Harvard Foundation. In 1981, then-University President Derek C. Bok and the deans of the College created the Foundation to “improve relations among racial and ethnic groups within the University and to enhance the quality of our common life,” according to the group’s mission statement. The Foundation, which organizes campus staples such...
...campaign advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama engaged in verbal combat at the Institute of Politics last night, sparring over the Illinois senator’s stated views on the war in Iraq...
...certainly since the penning of the Constitution. More specifically, on the issue of President Bush’s order for a surge in troops, Barron thought Congress would be well within its limits to cap the number of non-deployed soldiers Bush could add to the field of combat. Feldman disagreed, again pointing to the expanded scope of modern war. “The realities of contemporary warfare involve the regular shuttling in and out of troops during the battle as part of both the strategic and tactical goals of successfully fighting the war,” he said, concluding...
Framed by the French, European, and U.S. flags, Villepin called upon the United States and France to use their history as allies and common democratic values to combat instability in the Middle East...
...combat truck deflects IED blasts--which are responsible for 70% of U.S. deaths in Iraq--well enough that the Army doubled its initial order. The truck's secret? Its shape...