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...groups are trying to carry on by using local personnel. (The Red Cross has 600 in Iraq.) But it's becoming harder to function effectively. Geoffrey Keele, spokesman for UNICEF's mission to Iraq, says, "We're still implementing emergency programs, but we've lost our ability to expand them." In Afghanistan, says a senior U.N. staff member, "We are asking ourselves if we are approaching a threshold beyond which it may be impossible to operate...
...growth rate have faded. Economists expect this year's fourth quarter to cool to a still healthy 4%. To sustain long-term growth, the economy needs what's known as a virtuous cycle, in which increases in demand for goods and services are such that businesses have to expand capacity, hire more workers and produce more goods, all of which generates additional profits and demand for more workers...
Russell Crowe's film will expand the O'Brian cult. But new readers drawn by the cannon fire may be surprised to discover how complex the books truly are. Their spiritual through line is the friendship of Aubrey and Maturin, a classic concord of opposed natures. Aubrey is gruff, blocky, pragmatic; Maturin is lean, reserved and cerebral, though stalwart enough to amputate limbs without the niceties of general anesthetic or clean instruments. Both men are moved by music. Maturin plays cello, while Aubrey scrapes along on violin, and their shared attempts at Locatelli or Boccherini are their ultimate expression...
...study of gender and sexuality without compromising students’ ability to engage in a serious study of women’s history or feminist theory. We are confident that in the long run this change will represent more than a semantic shift, but one that allows CDWS to expand its offerings without sacrificing its current strengths...
...moment, the possibilities seemed endless. Why not expand the system to a more comprehensive array of superficial attributes by which to judge our peers? Facemash.com could do wonders for the campus hermit’s pained heart, but how much more hypercritical fun could be had with GPA-Mash.com, Parents’-Income-Mash.com and Elite-Summer-I-Banking-Internship-Mash.com! Perhaps Byerly Hall, long taxed by ever-increasing numbers of applicants, could use the decentralized 21st-century model to whittle down the Class of 2008—Eager-Harvard-College-Applicants-Mash.com might be just around the corner...