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...watch/computer clock back an hour...
...Tehran was outraged. Everywhere I went yesterday, the talk vibrated with indignation over the film 300 - a movie no one in Iran has seen but everyone seems to know about since it became a major box office surprise in the U.S. As I stood in line for a full hour to buy ajeel, a mixture of dried fruits and nuts traditional to the start of Persian new year festivities, I felt the entire queue, composed of housewives with pet dogs, teenagers, and clerks from a nearby ministry, shake with fury. I hadn't even heard of the film until that...
...effort to lure its physicians away from primary care and toward students, the University is giving them a raise. Harvard’s doctors, who now make as little as $30 per hour of teaching, will be paid $100 an hour starting July 1. The move to increase funding for academic instruction reflects a push to make teaching as lucrative for doctors as treating patients, coming as Harvard Medical School revamps its curriculum to stress more faculty-student interaction. The funding, which will increase from $8 million to $16 million, will be contributed mostly by Harvard University and Harvard Medical...
...first hour of the 90-minute UC session was dominated by heated debates over the Financial Committee’s (FiCom) grants packages. Representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club were present to lobby against the UC’s decision to fund less than a third of the grant requested for the 2007 Bipartisan Paintball Brawl. After discussion over the role of precedents in granting UC funding, and whether or not the UC should fund entertainment activities, the council voted to grant the full amount requested by the organizers of the event...
President Bush's seven-hour visit to Colombia came at an awkward moment. Revelations of ties between powerful politicians and criminal paramilitaries have brought down eight lawmakers and forced out President Alvaro Uribe's intelligence chief and foreign minister in the last four months. A new U.N. report says extra-judicial killings by the military are rising in the country. Colombia had the highest murder rate of trade unionists in the world and 4,000 disappearances last year, according to Human Rights Watch...