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...Ossetia. It was a colossal miscalculation. Saakashvili told me he never expected the U.S., Georgia's closest ally, to fight for Georgia. Yet the country was nonetheless gripped by a sense of abandonment when the inevitable punishing Russian counterattack came. The Russians bombed infrastructure targets all over Georgia and cut off the main east-west highway, then marched to within 34 miles (55 km) of Tbilisi before turning back. Georgians felt betrayed. As one told me, "We were looking at the skies constantly, asking, Where are the goddam Americans...
...Cutting in Colorado: The Centennial State says it will reduce its hourly minimum wage by 4¢ next year, to $7.24, becoming the first to lower its rate since the U.S. passed a minimum-wage law in 1938. Officials say a 2006 amendment to Colorado's constitution--in which voters opted to tie minimum wage to inflation--forces them to cut the rate because the state's consumer price index fell this summer...
...This September, Harvard Real Estate services installed two forty-foot wind turbines on the Soldier’s Field Parking Garage that will provide up to 10 percent of the garage’s annual energy needs, said Joe A. Gregory, assistant director of sustainability for HRES. To further cut emissions, Harvard has undertaken the installation of the largest institutional solar array, a 250-yard solar complex atop a University-owned building in Watertown that will generate over seven percent of the complex’s annual energy...
...third set saw five lead changes before the score was evened at 13-13 midway through the set. The Bulldogs led early, and Harvard fought back to cut Yale’s lead to 20-18. But it was the same story as the second set, as Yale went on another four-point run to hold a 24-18 lead and eventually closed out the match with a 25-21 victory in the final...
...must whittle down its expenses after the endowment lost $11 billion—30 percent of its value—this past year. The Harvard Corporation slashed its endowment distribution to FAS by 8 percent for the fiscal year ending July 2010, and is planning to cut another 12 percent the year after, University President Drew G. Faust said at an October Faculty meeting...