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...referring to the failed U.S. effort in the early 1990s to rescue Somalia from anarchy and famine that saw 43 Americans killed. But Ralph Peters, a retired Army intelligence officer and military scholar, says taking back Sadr City, while producing potentially substantial losses in the short run, is crucial if the U.S. hopes to curb al-Sadr's strength. "The best way to deal with Sadr City is to just do it--take everything you've got and clean it out," Peters says. "Dithering won't help...
...heart and soul rest in the College. Accordingly, it must take great care, through consideration of logistics related to the new undergraduate houses and promised student center, to ensure a continued sense of undergraduate community. The “Plan for Harvard in Allston” addresses real and crucial concerns about the University’s expansion into Allston. The report endorses interdisciplinary teaching and research, especially in the sciences, a furtherance of former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ vision that is necessary if the University is to be a leader of science in the 21st century...
...icon by which our age will be remembered have surely now been dispelled with a Multi-Touch click. The vanguard of cell phones, laptops, and music players have finally achieved the sleek unity that is the iRevolution’s ultimate victory. And this revolution occurs at the crucial intersection of our crazed gadgetphilia and our intensifying demand to pump maximum efficiency into and out of every moment. The epic of our iCivilization shall read, to update Pope, “Music, cameras, and mobile phones lay separate hidden in the night; Jobs said, ‘Let iPhone...
...respect, not too much has fundamentally changed since then; China's economy is still racing along, car bombs are still exploding in Baghdad and Americans are still hooked on their gas-guzzling SUVs. But one crucial thing is changing: oil prices are actually falling. Crude oil futures fell below $50 a barrel Thursday afternoon, their lowest level since May of 2005. Gasoline prices are down too, to around $2.25 a gallon on average, from a peak of just over $3 last summer. It's all good news for the economy, since lower energy prices traditionally help tame inflation and could...
...Even on the slopes, however, it's hard to escape current events. The political crisis between the Lebanese government and the Hizballah-led opposition that has turned the capital into a semi-permanent protest zone has also scared off foreign tourists, a crucial part of the economy. Bookings are down by as much as 60 percent from last year at Skileb, an online ski package operator that deals mostly with foreigners. Although skiing represents only about 10% of Lebanon's tourism market, Lebanon's economy is under such duress after the past summer's war with Israel that the country...