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...course, modern science has made great contributions to our understanding of certain issues. For example, the recently unclassified National Intelligence Council report stating that "the problem of feeding a burgeoning population is not agriculture or science, but rather political stability, transportation and distribution.” Not long ago, this view of the world would have been ridiculed; today, we may call it correct...
...Undergraduate Council unanimously approved a resolution last night calling for a Harvard University Employees Credit Union ATM to be installed in the Currier House lobby and moved forward with plans to place students on committees focusing on public service...
CORRECTION Due to an error in Undergraduate Council record-keeping, the Dec. 15 article "UC Approves ATM for Currier" incorrectly stated that John F. Pararas '08-'09 had been expelled from the Council due to excessive absences. In fact, Pararas has not been absent quite enough to qualify for expulsion, and UC Vice President Randall Sarafa '09 announced over the UC-General e-mail list Thursday evening that Pararas had not been expelled...
...That leaves the international community with two unappealing options. The short-term fix is to try to neutralize the pirates by pursuing them on land. Hence a U.S. draft proposal authorizing military action inside Somalia currently before the U.N. Security Council. But sending troops into Somalia is fraught with danger, as the American soldiers of Blackhawk Down, and now the Ethiopians, know to their cost. Present day U.S. operations against the Islamists - publicly confined to air strikes, but also including some clandestine fighting on the ground - have killed two significant leaders, including the bomb-maker in the 1998 al-Qaeda...
...bitter after Hussein fired the mayor of Mogadishu and the pair could not agree on new Cabinet appointments. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who ordered his troops into Somalia two years ago to prop up the transitional government, called the squabbling a "never-ending saga" that must end. The Council of the European Union declared the same, saying it was time for the transitional government's leaders "to end these conflicts and to concentrate on the real challenges faced by the Somali people, notably peace, stability and reconciliation...