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Afghanistan will top the agenda when NATO member nations gather this week in Bucharest to discuss the state of the alliance. General Dan McNeil, commander of the alliance's 43,250 troops in Afghanistan, has lobbied for reinforcements to help battle the rising insurgency in the country's south. But commanders on the ground would also like a little more help from the Afghans on whose behalf they're fighting. "Frankly, defeating the Taliban is the least of our worries," says one. "They are not going to beat us. It's not them that are crippling the economy. What...
...thought they'd see. A man wearing a shirt stitched with a bright yellow sunflower stood on a weed-strewn football pitch and began lambasting President Robert Mugabe, the man who has ruled the country for 28 years. At first, the villagers looked on nervously. Then they began to gather and listen. Zimbabwe's descent from food exporter to malnutrition was an "abomination," said the stranger as the crowd murmured its approval. The clique around the President had stolen the country's land from the people, he charged. Louder sounds of approval. When he accused government ministers of being "cowards...
Today at 2:30, members of the Harvard Anti-War Coalition (HAWC) will gather in front of the Science Center, along with over a dozen other campus groups, to protest the Iraq War on its fifth anniversary. The Crimson sat down with HAWC’s co-founders and the president of the Harvard Democrats to discuss the state of protest and politics at Harvard...
...TIME from Indian police detention in Jwalamukhi. "We've achieved in three days what we were hoping to achieve in three months." Tsundue had been among the first batch of 101 marchers held on Thursday by Indian authorities. Organizers were also hoping the protests within Tibet and China would gather steam. "Much as we are sad for our brothers and sisters in Tibet, we want the protests to continue," said B. Tsering, president of the Tibetan Women's Association. But since the passing of the Chinese deadline for the protestors to surrender at midnight Monday, the organizers of the protests...
...place, but DeWolf, who is also a Crimson photographer, said that the majority of points have yet to be counted and that any House could take the top spot. Leverett is currently in the lead in the Green Cup standings. Steinman, who is also a Crimson sports writer, helped gather dishes in Lowell, but also offered a challenge to residents of his own House: “If Lowell can do it well, there’s no reason Winthrop can’t do it better...