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...according to the World Bank, aid to developing countries by developed countries has fallen 20 percent since 1990. Developed countries, including the United States, are only giving 0.2 percent of their gross domestic product in international aid, far short of the 0.7 percent pledge that the UN estimates would halve world hunger...
Last year, a pitiful 12.5 percent of new tenured Faculty were women, a number which has fallen steadily every year since University President Lawrence H. Summers took office in 2001. After a rocky meeting with members of the Faculty this fall who sought to emphasize the severity of the problem, Summers has taken some important steps to address the troubling trend and make it a serious priority. We have no doubt that the administration’s support for this issue extends beyond mere lip service...
...enlistment bonus offered to recruits of the National Guard, which accounts for 40% of the troops in Iraq but has fallen nearly 30% behind in its recruitment goals in the past two months...
Consistently on this page, we have lamented that Harvard administrators are out of touch with students. We have called for greater student outreach when important decisions are up for deliberation. And too often, our appeals have fallen on deaf ears. But there are new indications that our cries have not been in vain...
...Quebec police found Dallaire unconscious on a park bench: he’d consumed a bottle of scotch—which produced a dangerous mixture with his daily dose of prescription psychotropic drugs. By the time police had rushed Dallaire to the hospital, the decorated general had nearly fallen into a coma...