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...outside a Dunkin' Donuts near Ottawa on his way to a round of arm twisting with Canadian lawmakers. Prime Minister Paul Martin, the only member of the G-8 running a budget surplus, has refused to do something Bono and DATA had long hoped he would: commit to giving 0.7% of Canada's GNP to development aid. Many European countries made formal commitments to that figure in 2005, adding billions to the future overall aid pot, but Martin has said the numbers don't add up yet for Canada. (The U.S. gives 0.1%). Bono was hoping to change Martin...
Through 12 minutes of Saturday’s contest, the Crimson had yet to commit a turnover. Over the final eight minutes of the half, Harvard turned the ball over just twice—one of the squad’s most efficient halves of the season...
...high-five. My parents, on the other hand, walked into their marriage ready to accept all those small flaws, ready to grow accustomed to one another, ready to love one another. Though often criticized, their method of meeting forced them to make the conscious decision to wholly commit themselves to each other without fleeing at the first sign of imperfection. For all the reverence that Western culture has for the romanticized notion of “love,” it somehow fails to recognize that love is something we often have to work to maintain. Growing...
...Shreya N. Vora ’06, defended the large presence of South Asian students in South Asian studies at Harvard. “Though initial attraction to the subject may be based on heritage, this attraction does not compromise the intellectual reasons why many South Asian students eventually commit themselves to the subject,” she said. While the faculty present at the meeting supported the suggestions of the students, Parimal G. Patil, assistant professor of Study of Religion and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, encouraged students to look to the future of the South Asian Studies program...
Calling those who commit acts of horrific violence “inhuman” does not do justice to their complex situation, Uzodinma Iweala ’04 said yesterday at a reading of his critically acclaimed first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” in the Barker Center. More than 60 people turned out to hear an excerpt from the new work, which tells the story of a African child soldier. “The person who is doing the killing is still as human as you would be if you were in that situation...