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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...faults. He continues to show his destructive streak on “Edge of Desire,” singing, “Don’t say a word / Just come on and lie here with me / ‘Cause I’m just about to set fire / To everything I see.” No longer a lovably lost post-grad, he has become an introspective adult, and though his tone may be prove less light-hearted, it ultimately makes for more compelling songwriting...

Author: By Zachary N. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Mayer | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...concerned by what they perceive as growing Indian influence in Afghanistan, through the Karzai government and massive development projects. They also accuse India of using Afghanistan as a base from which to wage a proxy war on Pakistan. Its priorities make the Pakistan army unlikely to turn its fire on the Haqqani and Hafiz Gul Bahadur networks, as Obama is demanding. Instead, the army has revived a nonaggression pact with Bahadur and with Maulvi Nazir - both of which use Pakistani soil as a base from which to wage war on NATO forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan's priority is simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Pakistan Won't Fight the Afghan Taliban | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...Following his demarche, several more whistleblowers have posted videos on YouTube - to much fanfare - accusing their superiors of fabricating cases, including one that led to life sentences for two men convicted of a 2005 arson in which 25 people were killed. The two men convicted of setting the fire in the northwestern city of Ukhta were innocent, former policeman Mikhail Yevseyev and former deputy prosecutor Grigory Chekalin said in separate videos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's YouTube Craze: Exposing Police Corruption | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...suites would meet the College’s standards for gender neutral rooms, McIntosh said. For example, locks cannot be installed on walkthrough bedrooms or in rooms that have the only fire exit...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Gender-Neutral Housing On Table? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...We’re in a strange time where the traditional measures for judging libraries are under fire. As recently as 10 or 20 years ago the only number that really seemed to count was how many books, and Harvard could always afford to say that’s not really what should be counted,” Hazen says. “Now when we think of that libraries, they’re less free standing autonomous entities. We have to look at libraries as part of networks, webs of knowledge, collections that are all over the place...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Widener to the Web | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

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