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...have much choice. They needed to give the Iraq jihad the backing and legitimacy of al-Qaeda's direction. But it's turned out to be a very emancipating development for al-Zarqawi." Evidence suggests,though, that he may have gone too far. In October the U.S. released a letter that it said was sent in July from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi--in which bin Laden's deputy urged the Jordanian to refrain from attacking Shi'ites in Iraq. It has provoked the anger of moderate Muslims around the world. Al-Zawahiri suggests such attacks "be put off until...
Forty-eight seniors received a much-awaited letter last month informing them of their election to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest undergraduate honors organization in the United States. James F. Coakley ’68—secretary of Harvard’s chapter, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts—said that there are three rounds of elections for each class. The first round occurs in the spring of junior year, the second one in the fall of senior year, and the last round during the spring of senior year. Within the Class...
...Rinere also said she would use the resources created by the Advising Committee, including their extensive calendar of advising duties, to further her work, “I don’t think that [the calendar is] a document that has to be followed to the letter, but some very knowledgeable people put it together,” she said. Following the recommendations of the Advising Committee, Rinere said she found contact between students and advisers, in both formal and informal settings, to be important. “Good advising comes from conversations among people who care about other people...
...letter distributed to administrative and financial deans at Harvard’s schools, provided by Berman, said that the recent years’ increases to endowment payout had not kept pace with the University’s soaring investment returns. Investment returns were up 19.2 percent last fiscal year, growing the endowment to a mammoth $25.9 billion. Harvard earned a 21 percent return the previous year...
...years of higher-than-expected endowment returns, the current endowment spending rate has declined below our desired target spending,” the letter states...