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Ahhhh…. Opening Day at Fenway Park. Warm sunshine, the smell of freshly cut grass, that first delicious bite of a Fenway Frank, the crack of the bat as Big Papi puts one over the Green Monster. Oh wait, just kidding. It’s actually raining, hovering around 44 degrees, and Opening Day was just cancelled. Thank you New England weather...
...public. “If this news makes you feel shocked, deceived, and as if you wasted your time, I can completely empathize because, frankly, I feel the same way,” Bridge wrote. Bridge and McNaughton had met with the administration to discuss the decision to cut the printed version of the Q Guide, but they had not been told about plans to alter the guide’s format, said Douglas R. Lloyd ’09, a two-year veteran of the Q Guide who was helping advise this year’s editors. According...
...guidance in other sectors. But as the economic downturn has dramatically affected the career interests and needs of undergraduates, OCS has adapted remarkably well to a shifting demand. OCS has faced the same tightening of the belt that has affected the rest of the University. In an effort to cut operation costs, OCS is considering eliminating one-on-one counseling in July. But even amidst sweeping budget cuts across the University, OCS has adapted to the current situation with flexibility, energy, and responsiveness to the needs and desires of undergraduates. The programs and panels offered by OCS this spring have...
...high-tech vehicles and aircraft that is ideal for waging war against a powerfully armed nation-state but is of far less use for the kinds of counterinsurgency wars currently being waged. And the Navy's shipbuilding program, which has been shoddily run for years, will see some cuts. Gates also plans to cut spending on missile defense by $1.4 billion next year, while new satellite communications programs are trimmed. And the Marines' plan to spend more than $13 billion on a new fleet of helicopters to transport the President, which Obama himself had deemed unnecessary, was cut from Gates...
...spending priorities from billion-dollar Cold War-era weapons to the simpler armored vehicles and spy drones needed for the "wars we are in today and scenarios for the years ahead," Gates on Monday proposed, among other things, to end funding of the advanced F-22 Raptor fighter. That cut alone will spark fierce resistance on Capitol Hill, but it's only one aspect of what Gates called his "unorthodox approach" that will align military spending with today's military realities. The $534 billion budget announced by Gates on Monday amounts to a dramatic first salvo...