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...various mental health issues. There is a great deal of concern at Harvard over the emotional wellness of its undergraduates. Owing to the rigorous course load, intense level of competition, and high population of type-A personalities, the college is running on anti-depressants. Hordes of social advocacy groups exist at Harvard to save its undergraduates from depressing, unrewarding, teetering-on-the-edge-of-serious-mental-breakdown lives. Room 13 will serve students cookies and talk stuff out; Eating Concerns Hotline & Outreach (ECHO) is around to help those students who can’t bring themselves to eat the cookies...
...newspapers, and The Crimson in particular, retain that trust? By remembering that the reader comes first, and that we exist above all to serve our community. Nothing is journalism that “does not regard the reader...as a master to be served,” former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll has said. (The Crimson is, of course, different from professional papers like the Times in that it also has an educative function, and exists to train its reporters as journalists. These dual missions need not be exclusive of each other...
...days of the Coalition Provisional Authority, American viceroy L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer issued Order 91, which was intended to demobilize or integrate nine militias totaling about 100,000 men into the Iraqi security forces. But the Kurdish pesh merga and the armed wing of SCIRI, the Badr Organization, still exist today because the order was never completely or competently carried...
...1920s to control mosques, mullahs and what gets said in Friday sermons. The Baathists maintained the Awqaf as a useful tool of coercion, but it was disbanded by the American-appointed Governing Council in 2003 and forbidden by Iraq's new constitution. Yet Ministries of Awqaf still exist in Kurdistan, and are still used to enforce political orthodoxy. "Instead of one big Saddam, we have a hundred small Saddams in Kurdistan," says mullah Ahmed Wahab, a member of the Iraqi parliament for the KIU and the head cleric of mosque in Erbil until he was fired by the Erbil Awqaf...
...says she has enjoyed introducing unfamiliar material to a new audience: “It is wonderful to see the way that newcomers fall in love with this music. They’ll say ‘Wow, I didn’t even know this sort of music existed. It’s beautiful.’”This is just the sort of younger audience that early music has been seeking. “Our audience reflects the classical audience at large, mainly older, very well educated, of middle and upper incomes,” says...