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...America has reaped tremendous benefits from foreign students, who often stay and enrich our nation or return to benefit their home countries. By taking this approach, the United States risks undermining its commitment to equality of educational opportunity. Eventually, we hope that the United States can find the middle ground that will provide sufficient security while still allowing top students from other nations to come to the U.S. to study. Until then, the federal government should grant exceptions for exceptional cases like al-Dewachi?...
Myers, who is known for her ability to build organizations from the ground up, will oversee the day-to-day operations of the recently announced campaign, said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. She will base herself in Illinois...
...Puritan through and through, Mather saw Harvard as a training ground for Congregational ministers. But he went unsupported in his attempt to insert a clause into the college charter that required future presidents to be orthodox New England Congregationalists. Mather’s attempted sacrifice of the college’s well-being for his own personal beliefs was characteristic of an earlier view of leadership. But changes were...
...Officers were dispatched to a report of a suspicious item in the Blackstone Steam Plant Complex at 46 Blackstone Street in Cambridge. The officers reported that the item appeared to be road flares wrapped in tape and rope that were lying on the ground near the loading dock. The Cambridge bomb squad arrived and determined that the item was indeed suspicious and therefore X-rayed the item. The bomb squad reported that the item was wiring. Harvard University’s Facilities Maintenance Operations confirmed that the item was wiring for a motor that was being installed for a gate...
...stage, adorned with relatively few decorations and objects, was ultimately quite successful in evoking richly ornate Tibetan monasteries. A white table upstage bore the image of the Dalai Lama and a three-dimensional mandala and torma, ritual offerings usually made of yak butter or ground barley. One graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism, speculated that the table served as a throne, with the Dalai Lama’s image acting as a manifestation of His presence...