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...Kiir Mayardit, was hardly encouraging. He ordered his troops "not to disrupt or intimidate" rivals and warned his new southern opponents not to campaign "using firearms." Says one veteran southern Sudan aid worker: "Not only is there no capacity in the government, there often seems like there's no interest in setting some up. People are just grabbing pieces for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Sudan: Can This Be the World's Newest Nation? | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...Expos 40, “Public Speaking Practicum,” garnered 104 applications for only 12 slots. It seems clear that more Harvard students want to learn the rhetorical craft than Expos 40 and a select number of other related courses can accommodate. Considering the demonstrated and professed interest in oratory instruction, Harvard should expand the number of courses that feature public speaking components. Those that already do—like Culture and Belief 11, “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” and English 156, “Crime...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvard Listens | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...more wars Britain engages in, the greater the spike in applications to join its armed forces. (The economic slowdown has also boosted interest in military careers.) But some of those potential recruits are going to be disappointed: the army is only 570 troops short of its mandated full strength of 102,070. On March 22 the Ministry of Defence announced a "rebalancing" of the army that will see some soldiers discharged and troops with appropriate specialisms brought in to replace them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense of the Realm: Britain's Armed Forces Crisis | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...Financial Aid Wilbur J. Bender ’27, tried to improve the admission office’s “ability to detect homosexual tendencies and serious psychiatric problems.” Now, sexual orientation is again becoming a controversial subject for elite college admissions officers. The LGBT interest group Campus Pride has proposed adding an optional question about sexual orientation to the Common Application.  Supporters of this movement believe that such a question will better enable colleges to meet the needs of LBGT prospective applicants and would produce a more sexually diverse classes. However, although...

Author: By Ryan M. Rossner | Title: Should Colleges Ask? | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

...Problem: The artists are indie and hip-hop, and you fall far from either of these extremes. Which genre do you feign an interest...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason and Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FM's Guide to Yardfest Survival | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

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