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...ironic that that finger-wagging is at its most furious today, when Harvard undergraduates have never had so much at the tips of their fingers. Never mind that professors willing to supervise independent studies abound, that research funding has never been so readily available, and that all but a handful of Harvard’s faculty members are as eager as ever to engage with students who actively seek them out. However, the CUE is espoused as the place of reckoning for hoardes of "delinquent" faculty, professors with early morning office hours are cited for negligence, and student-advocacy hawks...
...essential details in advance to the New York Times. Tehran, predictably, denied the allegations. A Pentagon official likened it to "a brushback pitch" designed to highlight Iranian mischief without the drumbeat of war that would have reverberated throughout the country if a senior Administration official had pointed the finger...
...Citizens, and the council members who have been flooded with angry calls and e-mails, are fed up with the finger pointing. "We are here because we are in a crisis," a stern council member Oliver Thomas told the pair. "Whatever it takes to work it out - you know, move in next door to each other...
...extraordinary briefing in the Green Zone pointed a finger but it wavered. The sophisticated bomb technology behind some of the deadliest improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq came from neighboring Iran, said U.S. military officials in Baghdad on Sunday. Those IEDs used a molten ball of copper to punch through the armor of American vechicles to kill or main the passengers. Such explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs) have killed 170 U.S. troops and wounded 620 more since the spring of 2004. Their use has doubled since 2006, accelerating at the end of that year. The U.S. is usually guarded in revealing...
...Some Shi'a leaders acknowledge that Iran may be meddling in Iraqi affairs, but say the solution lies in diplomacy. Washington's aggressive finger-pointing, they say, can only antagonize the Iranians further, and hurt Iraq's interests. "To end the violence, Iraq needs the help of all its neighbors, and we have to be very diplomatic about how we approach them," Shansal said...