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...Harvard exists for only one reason, and that is, the future of the world depends more than anything else on what young people learn and go forth and do,” Summers said...
...proposal put forth by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would shift $20 million from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, of which the Smithsonian Observatory is a major component, to the National Science Foundation. The money goes towards the observatory’s staff salaries and equipment, and the cuts would severely jeopardize the observatory’s ability to conduct meaningful, ongoing scientific research...
...lent him to the government. It's not a stable system, especially now that noses are out of joint over the gubernatorial appointment. And so the robbers, branded as Sherzai's Pakistani recruits, were besieged at 7 a.m. by mujahedin, many from rival factions. Kalashnikovs began barking back and forth, soon joined by salvos of rocket propelled grenades, the explosions resonating through the waking city. There was little strategy behind the assault, and controlled fire wasn't a feature. Lurking behind corners, or popping out windows, the fighters sprayed rounds, oblivious to curious market shoppers. The exchange...
...Estrada faces the bench from the front row, sagging in a monogrammed barong tagalog, his lips tugged down in a pout, his eyes slipping shut as his attorneys drone on. And he's right. It is tedious. Delay is the name of the game. The lawyers bicker back and forth over minor points, eating up the entire session. And then it's back to the hospital for another long evening. "When there are people here, I must try and appear to be happy," he says through a cloud of Lucky Strike smoke. "But, of course, I'm depressed." After...
...must meet our deadlines and will make every effort to meet them," John Magaw told the Senate Commerce Committee last Thursday. In his new post, Magaw, formerly with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, takes on an unenviable task: Squaring actual airline security procedures with measures and deadlines set forth by Congress. And while Magaw and others in the Department of Transportation insist those deadlines are well in hand, some reports last week had airline lobbyists urging Congress to push the deadline back 30 days; lobbyists deny any such effort...