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Harvards houses are uniquely positioned to play the role of social mixer and equalizer on this campus. Students from a remarkable diversity of backgrounds live in close contact with one another. They share a library, a dining hall, and common spaces. Why then is it that Harvard allows its student body to segregate itself into small, insular groups even before arriving in its Houses? Upperclassmen have no reason or incentive to venture out of their blocking groups to interact with their Housemates and, as a consequence, few do. As a result, Houses remain divided among blocking group lines...
...issue between the U.S. and Iran. "We are not trying to be in the lead on this one." Rice said. "Because it's the EU [they] walked out on. Our strategy has been that the EU offered to engage them in these talks. We've been in close contact with the EU but if there is a resolution we'd like it to be an EU resolution and I think we'll just consult with the EU about the timing...
...diverse as it should be, but it’s a lot better than before,” said Rachel Gravelin, a panelist and investment banker at Bank of America (BOA). “I have never been discriminated against, but women need to make sure to keep in contact and network with other women. You need to manage your career whether male or female through connections...
...From the beginning of the insurgency, U.S. military officers have tried to contact and negotiate with rebel leaders, including, as a senior Iraq expert puts it, "some of the people with blood on their hands...
Indeed, a covert-intelligence officer working for the ISG told TIME correspondent Brian Bennett that he had been ordered in August 2003 to "terminate" contact with Iraqi sources not working on WMD. As a result, the officer says, he stopped meeting with a dozen Iraqis who were providing information--maps, photographs and addresses of former Baathist militants, safe houses and stockpiles of explosives--about the insurgency in the Mosul area. "The President's priority--and my mission--was to focus on WMD," Kay told TIME. "Abizaid needed help with the counterinsurgency. He said, 'You have the only organization in this...