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...what is driving the price of gold? Adam says demand. And that's a good thing. As the credit crisis and global recession eases, more and more consumers, and industrial users like electronics manufacturers, are buying gold again. According to World Gold Council, demand for gold, while down from a year ago, rose 19% in the second quarter vs. the first three months of the year. Indeed, gold prices might be rising in anticipation of the normal holiday buying season...
...1920s as an anti-Catholic measure aimed at priest collars and nun habits, and it was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. Now some Muslim advocates worry that they are being targeted the same way. "Attire is always a red flag," says Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council for Islamic-American Relations. "But what we're seeing is the overall trend of a vocal minority in our society trying to block any accommodation to Muslims." (See the top 10 religion stories...
During the last meeting of the academic year, the Council narrowly voted 15-13 to begin a 16-month effort to purchase the multi-million dollar 45 Mt. Auburn St. property for use as a student community center...
After the upcoming elections for this year’s new UC representatives, the Council will vote on a proposal that transfers the management of the Student Community Center Capital Campaign to the separate, non-profit Student Community Center Foundation, which will eventually manage the operations of the student center rather than the College administration. It is expected to be comprised of students, faculty, alumni, and community members. —Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Brittany M. Llewellyn can be reached at bllewell@fas.harvard.edu. —Eric P. Newcomer...
...patiently waited for the North to come out of its self-imposed isolation - it had said it would never return to the six-party talks and then earlier this year tested, sequentially, a second nuclear bomb and a long-range missile, both in express defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions. The revelation that the North has a uranium-enrichment program (in addition to a plutonium program, which has been the focus of most of the diplomatic effort in recent years) and its assertion that the program is in its last stage now makes the next phase of diplomatic engagement...