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...military pressures are quite serious. The Army will face a troop-replacement crisis in March, when several units are scheduled to rotate home. A few weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office found that the Army would be able to maintain a force of only 67,000 to 106,000 troops after that, unless the tours of the 150,000 currently serving in Iraq are extended or significant numbers of National Guards, reservists and Marines are rotated in or significant foreign help is found, which is unlikely. "We'll get it done somehow,? a military source told me, with a sigh...
Dorm Crew should raise its pay in order to maintain a larger staff. The existence of a high-paying Dorm Crew provides interested students with an opportunity to earn money while getting exercise. And a sense of self-sufficiency is lost when we rely on the outside to do our dirty work...
This regrettable opinion does nothing more than maintain an anachronistic calendar. Even on a pragmatic level, keeping Fall Term’s exams after winter break will continue to ruin “vacations” of students with any conscientiousness about their studies. Unless we want to doom the legions of Harvard students to more years of having “time at home” meaning “time in front of the home computer” writing papers. And ending so late compared to other schools only serves to complicate our efforts to negiotiate...
...utilize these new experiences to become a more global citizen, she says she will not forget that she is attending Harvard in order to be of benefit to Nepal. And as she learns ever more about the American way of life, she says she’s striving to maintain a strong sense of self and pride in her country’s traditions...
...says she is determined to maintain a firm connection to the traditions of Nepal and says that being of service to her country is at the foundation of all of her educational goals...