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...oils. Their Kandahar-based cooperative Arghand now exports to Canada and the U.S. "You don't even need to compete with opium on a straight price level, since there are other risks and taboos associated with growing opium," explains Chayes. "The best way to combat opium production is to expand the market for Afghanistan's fruit...
...tenure or those who are on the path to tenure. “It’s quite the opposite at Harvard,” said Brian W. Casey, the FAS associate dean for academic affairs. “There was a conscious decision around the year 2000 to expand the tenured ranks.” Tenured or tenure-track professors make up 62 percent of the Faculty at Harvard. Though Harvard might claim to contradict the study’s trend, John W. Curtis, one of the report’s authors, said that universities like Harvard have...
Chvez's calm concession did Venezuela, as well as democracy-challenged Latin America, a valuable service. And, whether he believes it or not, Venezuela did Chvez a favor as well by rebuffing the constitutional amendments that sought to expand and extend his already ample political power. The referendum loss should prod him to focus on the Venezuelan problems that need to be fixed before he leaves office in 2013, instead of the globe-trotting socialist and anti-U.S. crusades he hoped to pursue as President "until 2050," as he remarked last month. If so, he stands...
...agreement was signed back in 1996,” Rosché said, adding that it came out of a close relationship with Albert Carnesale, who served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1991 to 1995. Rosché said she hopes the gift will help expand the activities of the Center for Public Leadership. “It’s really going to be their show from now on,” she said. “We hope to bring more dollars to the table to make it even bigger and better.” Endowed gifts...
...said violinist Colin Jacobsen, of performing at Harvard, who also helped to arrange the piece. “The purpose of school is to experiment.”In the final two years of its residency at Harvard, the Silk Road Project plans to continue to expand the breadth of its music. “We are hoping to bring a composer from Uzbekistan next year,” said Freid. “Each time we come, we’re experimenting with different kinds of residencies.”But the future remains uncertain. As Freid...