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...Persuading non-Americans that it is in their interest to do more in Afghanistan; finding common ground with Russia while conceding nothing to its neo-imperial ambitions - these are challenges that would daunt any politician. A keen runner and cyclist, Rasmussen has been known to invite Facebook friends (he has 34,636 of them) to exercise with him. He has remade his Facebook page in English, and says he wants to use it to give NATO a human face. There's nothing wrong with that. But his new job requires him to do a lot more than be friendly...
...H1N1 pandemic across the world is testing all nations in their preparedness to combat the spread of the virus. Prevention, as we all know, is surely better than desperately seeking a cure, and schools may soon become the breeding ground for a deadlier strain of the virus. As a precautionary measure, all nations should shut down schools till some sort of herd immunity is attained. Let's understand that it is more practical to safeguard our children in our homes against the upsurge of swine flu than it is to subject them to contamination in public. The swine-flu pandemic...
...show's history. Another, Chuck Liddell of the Ultimate Fighting Championship league, was first scouted when he showed up to watch singer Willa Ford in Season 3. When Katz reached out to former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay via his book agent, she didn't soften up the ground in advance. "It was a Hail Mary pass," she admits. Twenty minutes later, DeLay...
...half, freshman Emma Keller sent in a shot that the Bulldog goalie kicked away, only to have rookie Katelin Wahl fire the ball back in. Mawema tried to smother the shot, but Harvard players descended on the goal mouth and managed to dislodge the ball. With Mawema on the ground, the ball rolled out to Bannon, who ripped it into the right corner for a 2-1 edge.With the lead in hand, the Crimson looked to put the Bulldogs away in the second half. To do so, the squad turned to Keating, its emerging star.After Mawema turned aside consecutive shots...
...argued that eating meat is bad for the environment, for the world’s poorest citizens, and for the conscious experiences of animals. “There really is no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalism,” he said. “And on that ground alone eating meat is unethical.” Instead of disputing Friedrich’s practical moral arguments, Hopkin and Harvard students in the audience asked questions that could have come from Social Studies 10 or “Justice”: How can we compare animal pain with human...