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...struck by the shortsightedness of the government's policy in forcing the Korengal Valley to stop producing timber. It seems extremely foolish to deny people access to jobs and money when the alternative for them is to join the enemy. The same applies to the opium trade. It would be better for Western governments to buy the crop above the black-market price for their pharmaceutical industries, even if it meant stockpiling or perhaps destroying some of the final product. The war cannot be won; the best that can be achieved is for the allies to hold the fort while...
Harvard recruited two high-profile professors from other universities: Mark Kisin will join the Mathematics Department and Jerry X. Mitrovica will join the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences next year...
Mitrovica will leave the University of Toronto to join Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences as a geophysics professor...
Although Bloxham said that he is excited to see Kisin and Mitrovica join the Faculty, he foresees senior faculty appointments of this kind to be unusual in the years to come...
...Armed Services Committee beg to differ. Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have written to President Obama, urging him to fight the release. "We know that many terrorists captured in Iraq have told American interrogators that one of the reasons they decided to join the violent jihadist war against America was what they saw on al-Qaeda videos of abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib," the pair wrote Obama May 6. "The release of these old photographs of past behavior that has now been clearly prohibited can serve no public good, but will empower...