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Troy does not only use Hillary Clinton as a way to discuss the past politics of America’s most powerful unofficial office: he also attempts to examine some more contemporary issues. Troy alludes to the idea that Hillary’s experience influenced, and was in turn shaped by, the issue of turn-of-the-millennium female roles...
President George W. Bush has continued to reject assertions that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. But in the wake of his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan, to discuss the country's continuing sectarian violence, some human rights experts are worrying about a different, worse fate for Iraq: genocide...
...policy experts in Washington, including Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, worry that a U.S. pullout would only heighten the dangers of genocide. Some observers have held up Vietnam's long road to stability as a possible model for Iraq, after American troops leave. But says Power, "When you discuss what is left in America's wake you have to acknowledge that Saigon is not the only scenario that is hanging in our midst. What about the Rwanda scenario?" In Rwanda, the 1994 genocide that had been brewing only broke into full bloom after the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeeping forces...
Something has to change if Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is to meet the demands of the students whom it serves. The Committee on House Life (CHL) acknowledged as much when it met to discuss the future of HUDS earlier this month...
...also altered the policy to allow licenses to be transferred from one cap area to another. The results of this change are not yet apparent, but it is expected to drive down the sale price of licenses in the most expensive areas, such as the Square. The council will discuss possible changes and policy orders to officially present to the license commission at next Monday’s regular meeting. —Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...