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...that night and on to New York, but the bloody street battles delayed his departure. On Friday morning he told reporters that although he had made progress in his efforts to free the hostages and felt that "a good measure of mutual trust has been established," he still faced "grave difficulties" in his quest. Finally, on Sunday, he escaped the street fighting and headed to New York City, where he was scheduled to report to U.S. officials on his progress before returning to Beirut this week...
They gathered by a grave tucked into fields of yellow rape flowers high in the Himalayan foothills. There, a dozen-odd guardians of China's last free-flowing rivers unveiled a memorial to a fallen comrade, an activist who had died of a heart attack in January. But their mission had another motive. Following the ceremony, they traveled into remote regions of Yunnan province to gauge opposition to a spate of new dam projects and offer assistance to vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders...
...seemingly unachievable goal was achieved. Yet while calling for divestment from PetroChina was certainly appropriate in this situation, there were other times this year when divestment seemed to be the catchword—the cure-all—for Harvard’s complicity, however tangential, to a grave world problem...
...spring, meetings became instead intense, intelligent discussions of how to fix poor management at the University. Seeing the administration “behind the scenes” this spring has reaffirmed my faith in the genuine concern of professors for the education Harvard provides—and increased my grave alarm about the current top leadership of Mass. Hall and University Hall...
...more debt, albeit at low interest. But you have to excuse homeowners for getting a little giddy. When they look at the rest of the economy, they see little else to be excited about. Employment has picked up, but wages haven't. Inflation has risen from the grave. The stock market is crawling to get back to where it was five years ago. Savings accounts throw off barely enough interest to feed a parking meter. Companies are cutting pensions, and politicians are making dire noises about Social Security. It's a scary message people are getting: We are heading toward...