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Iraq's ability to weather the global slowdown at the moment rests in the huge currency reserves it earned in recent years selling oil as prices soared. Iraq has roughly $30 billion in surpluses from previous years. That has allowed the country to maintain minimum standards of services and governance despite depression-scale unemployment (no reliable data are available, but some experts estimate unemployment may be over 20%). Iraq's GDP is growing steadily despite the global financial crisis. Last year, GDP grew in Iraq an estimated 7% to 9%. This year, GDP is projected to rise...
Clair said he, like most HAA-nominated candidates, does not intend to campaign for the position. If elected, Clair said he would push to make a Harvard education more affordable for undergraduate and graduate students alike and to maintain the University’s commitment to a diverse community...
...earlier this month. Huey was chosen in a closed process from a pool of self-nominated candidates that traditionally includes some of the Law School’s top students. Speaking with The Crimson in the Law Review’s Gannett House headquarters, Huey said she hoped to maintain the journal’s standards of scholarship. “My main goal is to keep doing what my predecessors have been doing—the leadership team from last year have done a great job on both the scholarship side and the community side,” Huey...
...thought we weathered their runs of momentum well.” Crimson guards, freshman Brogan Berry and co-captain Niki Finelli, both scored 15 points and shot 100% from the free throw line. With four of five starters in double digits, Harvard was able to maintain its lead over the Big Red even as it narrowed the score to four points with nine minutes left in the game. Much of the second half was the Tay show. She used her repertoire of fade-aways, spin moves, and reverse layups to overcome heavy traffic in the paint, as well as some...
...Still, in the absence of the Geneva Conventions, ancient peoples did maintain "some sense of what it was to cross the line," says Mayor. Across cultures, it was customary to deplore trickery and extol the virtues of the noble warrior. The Brahmanic Laws of Manu, a code of Hindu principles first articulated in the fifth century B.C., forbade the use of arrows tipped with fire or poison. Written in India a century later, Kautilya's Arthashastra, one of the world's earliest treatises on war and realpolitik, advocates surprise night raids and offers recipes for plague-generating toxins...