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...rest of Iraq, the hope in Qaim is that the American burden will lessen as Iraqi security forces take the lead. In Baghdad and other centers of sectarian violence, where the security forces are riddled with militiamen and where Shi'ites patrol hostile Sunni neighborhoods, that hope is more like a fantasy. But in al Qaim, foreign jihadists not too long ago antagonized local Sunni tribal leaders; and now the Americans have used that local history to win cooperation from the same maligned tribes, recruiting personnel for the Iraqi army and police. "It's in our best interest to train...
...chose to fund the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub and Lamont Café with his own discretionary fund. While we hope Faust will continue to take bold steps such as these in helping undergraduates, we hope that a more long-term, structural change can be made to lessen the need for temporary allocations of the discretionary budget...
...head to the Dudley Co-Op). That is, if you haven’t had an epileptic seizure from the “mood lights.” If you’re in Winthrop, just think of it as an annex of Eliot. This will lessen your confusion and increase your self-esteem. You can even attend their stein clubs on Thursdays. And if you’re housed in Pfoho-Currier-Cabot? Good luck figuring out which is which. We know we’ve been out there once, but don’t really remember the details...
...little test for the Allston location,” Lie says.In the meantime, groups like Student Friends of HUAM and the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM) are working to increase publicity and ensure that the move to Allston does not lessen the museums’ emphasis on teaching or sever any ties with the student body.“I’m not sure that at the moment [accessibility] is the museum’s main drive, because they have a lot going on right now,” says Paris...
...renewable resources?until now. Ecologically minded brands like Clarins, which is French, or Aveda and Origins and their corporate owner, the Este Lauder Cos., continue to innovate, while other, more conventional beauty companies like Lancme, Kiehl's Since 1851 and Paul Mitchell are finding philanthropic ways to lessen their impact on the world's resources...