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...program without hesitation even during the most challenging early days of the financial downturn. While the current generation of Harvard students will be forever grateful for their leadership, we will see even larger benefits in the years ahead as this new financial-aid program slowly but surely changes long-held views that Harvard and institutions like it are accessible only to the already-privileged. Such fundamental changes in public perceptions of institutions often take a generation or more...
...holiday in South Africa to fly home following the attack, it marked the first time he had to offer condolences to the relatives of fallen soldiers - a grim task for a young, up-and-coming minister. While expressing his deep regret for the deaths, zu Guttenberg broke a long-held taboo by declaring that Germany was indeed at war in Afghanistan - confirming a reality on the ground that most Germans haven't been ready to stomach. "Even if not everyone likes it, regarding what happens in parts of Afghanistan, one can colloquially refer to it as war," he said...
Modern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children, a new study of a contemporary Massachusetts population offers evidence of evolution still in action...
...Slates are not the first business owners on Mass. Ave. to be selling their long-held family business of late...
...paramount ruler, but he is not alone at the top. Hard-line loyalists within the military include General Thura Shwe Mann, his likely successor, and U Thaung, a former ambassador to the U.S., now the Science and Technology Minister who is believed to be driving the junta's long-held ambitions to acquire nuclear technology. Also influential are a handful of Burmese business tycoons, many of whom - like the generals themselves - are the subject of U.S. and E.U. sanctions that severely restrict overseas travel and investments. Lobbying of Than Shwe by these business cronies could explain the warm welcome accorded...