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...percent next year, in part because they’re squeezing hard on the faculty to build Allston,” said Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn. “The big issue at a place like Harvard, which has money, is to what extent is the rate of growth of projects like Allston going to partially stall other areas...
...decision by the Pentagon to swell the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq to 135,000 and make provision for more underscored the extent to which April's twin insurgent flare-ups had stretched the Coalition's combat capability. Allies willing to commit new troops are increasingly scarce, while U.S. officials report that as much as half of the Iraqi security forces recruited by the U.S. have proven to be unreliable against the insurgents. U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Tuesday said bluntly that such forces won't be in a position to ensure Iraq's security after the planned transfer...
...rejection by either side will torpedo the effort - and Cypriots may never get another chance to reunite their island. If one side says no, the Greek Cypriots will enter the European Union on May 1, leaving Turkish Cyprus isolated. The U.N., E.U., U.S. and Turkey - and even to some extent the Greek Cypriots' traditional allies in Athens - all favor the plan, and have warned this could be Cyprus' last opportunity to find a solution. "There is no Plan B," said U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell last week. Far from getting another "bite at the cherry," as one U.N. official...
There are three fatal flaws that damage Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ for nonbelievers: almost no characterization or narrative, a spectacularly large amount of violence and almost all of the Jews are evil Christ-killers. In Gibson’s mania to present the extent of Jesus’ suffering, character is lost, and by the end of the film, Jesus begins to resemble a piñata more than a man. The effect is that it is hard to understand quite what the point of all this is. It is never clear...
...Islamist radicals of Hamas and the rank-and-file of his own nationalist Fatah movement, which increasingly shares the Islamists' belief in the path of confrontation. Hence Sharon's recent remarks to an Israeli interviewer on his Gaza plan: "The Palestinians understand that this plan is, to a great extent, the end of their dreams, a very heavy blow to them," which, he said would "force them to give up their aspirations for many years to come, until a new leadership emerges on their side that is ready to fight terror." Sharon helped father the settlement movement in the 1970s...