Word: longingly
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...There’s a lot that people don’t know, and events like these remind people that we still have a long way to go,” said Jia Hui Lee ’12, a member of QSA. “This is not something that’s solved...
...Beijing Olympics thrust into the spotlight China’s massive investments in genocidal Sudan. The rancor that followed marked the first time China faced the international humiliation that comes with injudicious investment in troubled regimes. Since then, China has emerged from a year-long financial crisis as a global leader, not just a player. And yet the People’s Republic persists...
That burgeoning reputation also led to their being selected for the Blodgett Residency at Harvard for 2008-09. The Blodgett Residency is a two-year-long program which, according to the Harvard Department of Music website, “provides for distinguished artists and ensembles to spend four weeks each year in residence at Harvard University offering workshops, coaching and lessons to Harvard students.” Each residency requires the group to perform at least one free public concert...
...Independent Business would like to see a payroll tax holiday. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is asking for a reduction of the capital-gains tax, renewal of popular research and development and other soon-to-expire business tax breaks and a permanent elimination of the estate tax, among a long wish list of tax provisions. The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, would like to see aid to struggling states to help avoid layoffs of teachers, police and public employees and upwards of $500 billion more in targeted infrastructure and green-jobs investment. It proposes paying for this...
...might reasonably ask, did the strategy review really have to take so long and be so public? Obama had no choice about the public part of the program; he is privately furious about the leaks, especially those from the military. "We will deal with that situation in time," an Obama adviser told me. The criticism of the President for dithering is also unfair. This second Afghan strategy review in less than a year was made necessary by an assortment of dramatic new developments on the ground. Each had to be analyzed individually and then correlated with the others. There...