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...subcommittee of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, met last week to consider whether Harvard should maintain its ties to PetroChina, Summers said...
...training involved in A-boats,” said Paul F. Gilligan ‘05, captain of last year’s champion Eliot House A-crew and an Eliot House IM secretary. For that reason, he stressed that, despite the safety concerns, the Houses should work to maintain both amateur and more experienced crews...
...Syria has professed innocence and President Bashar al-Assad condemned Hariri's killing as a ?horrible terrorist act,? but that has not dimmed ire of Lebanese opposition groups and the Bush administration. Damascus had been hard at work in recent months maneuvering to maintain its fraying control over the fate of a neighboring country it has treated more like a restive province over the past three decades. Hariri, a one-time ally of Syria, had symbolized the best hope of a growing opposition movement in Lebanon to press for Syrian withdrawal. Although he had carefully nurtured his own relationship with...
...Although the longtime Saudi-associated billionaire had many enemies, Syria's accusers say none benefit as much from Hariri's slaying as those in Damascus who want to maintain a stranglehold over Lebanon. The ?confession? broadcast on Lebanese TV, in which a man later identified as a Palestinian refugee purported to take responsibility for the killing in the name of a Qaeda-linked jihad against ?Greater Syria,? was quickly dismissed within the region as a clumsy fraud designed to draw attention away from the real killers...
...politicians from all ends of the sectarian divide, while also dominating Lebanon's own intelligence and security services. But it is more than some nostalgic ?Greater Syria? concept that has driven Damascus to keep a tight hold on affairs in Lebanon. There are certainly economic benefits for Syria to maintain control over its economically dynamic neighbor whose progress and integration into the world economy puts Syria's own decrepit economy to shame. But Lebanon's primary importance to Damascus is its value as a strategic trump card. The organizing principle of Syrian foreign policy over the past four decades...