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...most recently into a war that has become an enormous money pit. Perhaps if we had used our resources more wisely over the years we could have helped reduce the death and destruction caused by the tsunami. Laura Geisel Redondo Beach, California, U.S. Tall Order for Abbas In his "Letter from Gaza," Matt Rees referred to the "culture of waste and corruption that ruined the Palestinian economy under Arafat" [Jan. 10]. I don't think that ruin can be laid solely at Yasser Arafat's door. How about the brutal invasion of Palestinian towns and villages by the Israeli army...
...memorial to murdered Jews but would not have prevented clashes last weekend between the NPD and left-wingers in Schleswig-Holstein, where elections take place on Feb. 20. Moscow, too, is confronting anti-semitism. On Jan. 13, 500 prominent Russians, including 20 members of parliament, sent a letter to the state prosecutor calling for a ban on all Jewish organizations, which they labeled "extremist." It was withdrawn after government pressure, but after six decades the twisted mythologies of Nazism are still finding adherents...
...letter, which since Thursday has been displayed prominently on the front page of Harvard’s website, was also disseminated to some alumni in an e-mail and to others through the development office’s monthly bulletin...
...mail underscored what appeared to be great anxiety among the central administration over the potential fallout—monetary or otherwise—from Summers’ comments. In his letter to the Harvard community, Summers made particular note of the “many compelling e-mails and calls that I have received” since his remarks were first reported...
Faust is also a member of the FAS Standing Committee on Women, the group of female professors who chastised Summers in a letter released Tuesday, saying that his controversial remarks to a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) “serve to reinforce the institutional culture at Harvard that erects numerous barriers to improving the representation of women on the faculty...