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...vote. The ministers who join the new government will face daunting tasks. Economic growth is expected to be as low as 4% this year, down from nearly 7% last year. The 300,000 displaced have not returned to their homes, and resentments over ethnicity, land and resources still linger. Tension in the slums remains high. Kenya's population has exploded to more than 40 million, and the country is quickly running out of enough land for all its people...
...halls closed on Friday, March 21, a $35 billion institution became home to possibly hundreds barren bellies and scholar-scavengers. A surprising number of undergraduates are compelled to stay for a wide variety of reasons, all of which call for a daily meal plan. First, many seniors are forced linger over break in order to complete theses. The final deadlines for many departments fall after the break, concentrators often open out of returning home for a spell or wiling away hours out in Cancun. Honors track concentrators studying Religion, Visual and Environmental Studies, and most of the hard sciences spend...
...similar to the one the HRC held with William Kristol ’73 last year, in which Kristol spoke to the group then allowed students the opportunity to ask questions. Motley said that having the meeting in a small venue like the Winthrop JCR encourages students to linger around after the event to discuss what the speaker said, as they did after Kristol’s speech. The leaders said they hoped that bringing Rove to campus would be a good way to share the club’s Republican values with other members of the Harvard community...
...slightly nostalgic atmosphere. Visually, the movie is beautiful and artistic, but the plot is too predictable. Despite her troubles and social handicaps, there’s not a lot of doubt that Miss Pettigrew will get her happy ending. The memory of Adams singing a sweet musical number may linger after the movie ends, but “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day” is largely forgettable. This is director Bharat Nalluri’s first feature-length film, and it shows. The movie is aesthetically thoughtful, but it lacks thematic depth. Although Adams and McDormand make...
...another chapter to the continuing (and confusing) story of hormone therapy (HT) taken during and after menopause. In the latest report, appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study doctors report that the health risks of taking the combined hormones estrogen and progestin can linger for up to three years after women stop taking them...