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...Even this year, as “Green is the New Crimson” banners fly high, the University Center for the Environment’s guide to environmental studies lists fewer than 15 undergraduate courses that could be considered environmentally focused but not scientific. Equally significant is the lack of a relevant concentration, or of well-defined subfields and tracks within existing concentrations. In this and other ways, Harvard undergraduates intrigued by the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of environmental issues face steep odds...
...further economic clout. China's domestic publishing industry has expanded rapidly since economic reforms began in the late 70s, with 270,000 titles published last year, but overseas recognition of this growing body of literature hasn't followed as quickly. Chinese leaders have long worried about China's lack of soft-power influence of the sort that the U.S. and Europe achieve through their prominent roles in media and arts...
While the co-eds in Maryland got plenty of opportunities to hone their skills on the water, the Crimson contingent in Hanover, N.H. suffered from a lack of races in the Captain Hurst Bowl...
...Like the U.S. mission, the Red Army lacked sufficient troops in Afghanistan to control the countryside. "After seven years in Afghanistan, there is not one square kilometer left untouched by a boot of a Soviet soldier," Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the top Soviet military officer, said in November 1986. "But as soon as they leave a place, the enemy returns and restores it all back the way it used to be." (McChrystal's take: "The insurgents control or contest a significant portion of the country, although it is difficult to assess precisely how much due to a lack...
...Most significant, for all of his protestations about the other side's lack of integrity and his vows to govern alone, Tsvangirai has, in the end, given Mugabe exactly what he wants - sole power over the government again. As this has been Mugabe's aim all along, Tsvangirai's move is undeniably self-defeating. Karin Alexander, a Zimbabwe expert at the Institute for Democracy in Africa in Pretoria, says the MDC is giving Mugabe the opportunity to cast it as the spoiler of the peace deal. She adds, however, that the move might be seen as a tactic to impel...