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...Chinese-made AK-47s, later used by the anti-U.S. Taliban turkey Turks got 100 Black Hawk and Cobra helicopters from the U.S. before Gulf War I, and used them against the Kurds Colombia M-16s that the U.S. gave to the Colombian army in the 1990s to combat drug trafficking are now in the hands of terrorist groups engaged in human-rights abuses nicaragua American arms transferred to anti-Sandinista contras in the 1980s are now used by active death squads across Central America
Last week, Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee organized a convention that brought over 400 students from all over the Northeast together to discuss how to effectively combat global warming. A few months ago, two Harvard juniors launched a nonprofit organization called CollegeCorps that will enable students to volunteer for international humanitarian efforts in developing countries around the world. The annual Evening with Champions organized by Eliot House students has raised over $2.2 million for cancer research and care since its creation in 1970. This weekend, thousands of high school students are coming together to promote civic responsibility through...
Last month’s move was accompanied by an announcement that the archive’s finances would be transferred to the already-beleaguered budget of the Harvard College Library, which will lay off 10 employees in June to combat a projected $2.3 million deficit...
Most of the men and women serving in Iraq right now are not the fighting machines we typically imagine them to be. According to the commander of the Air Force camp at Baghdad International Airport, the ratio of support staff to combat troops is 10 to 1. The Civilian Engineers Corps makes sure the generators are working and that the tents are sturdy. The dishwashers wash dishes. There is a laundry staff. There is even an entire unit whose sole purpose is to make sure all the Hummers have gas. Most of these people signed up thinking that they would...
...middle of the night. On my last night in Baghdad, the self-proclaimed “secret squirrels” of Iraq invited my group to dinner at one of Saddam’s water palaces (they had been living there since February 2002, a month before combat had officially begun). We ate Whoppers and hot apple pies around a U-shaped marble table in lavish, high-backed upholstered chairs. Saddam’s flat-screen surround-sound theater system echoed satellite television off the cavernous walls of the ballroom...