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...thousands of optimistic souls who believe a prosperous future can emerge from the stony soil of strife-torn Afghanistan. Since the brutal Taliban regime was toppled five years ago by Western coalition forces, the government of President Hamid Karzai, beset by warlords and Islamic militants, has struggled to maintain order and control. The country's primitive economy is dominated by illicit opium production, which by some estimates accounts for as much as one-third of GDP. About 40% of Afghans are unemployed. And last month, the World Food Program warned that millions of rural Afghans might starve this winter because...
...universally “ignored and resented” by the student body.The campaigns will be out in full force for the next four days, until voting closes on Thursday. Although the weekend momentum has been important for the outcome of the election historically, the campaigns will have to maintain steam and work to get out the vote over the next few days.“Nothing ends until Thursday at noon,” Riley told Petersen supporters yesterday...
...encourage students to vote “yes” on the measure as a symbolic gesture in support of the worthy end of greenhouse gas reduction. We were, admittedly, initially opposed to the placement of the initiative on this years ballot, and we maintain our reservations regarding its specificity. The EAC’s proposal backing this initiative lacks crucial details about financing that give us pause. In particular, the report lacks any concrete estimates for how much this initiative will cost. Moreover, we stand by the principle that Harvard’s dollars are best allocated towards research...
...Washington D.C. or Bust," has been on a mission to overturn the racial guidelines Kentucky's Jefferson County adopted to keep its public schools integrated. The student-assignment policy, which the local school board voted to keep even after a judge lifted a desegregation order in 2000, tries to maintain black student enrollment at each school between 15% and 50%. After 30 years of school integration, or what Gordon calls "the jelly bean approach" of throwing together children of different colors, the school district has still not been able to close the achievement gap between black and white students. Hence...
...idea right now is to maintain maximum pressure from a lot of places because this is an issue that will not go away for student groups,” he said...