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...Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who presented the grants along with University President Drew G. Faust, called the awards an indication of “Harvard stepping up to the plate” during trying economic times...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Awards Allston Grants to Groups | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...absolutely see education as the civil rights issue of our generation,” he said to a packed audience that included University President Drew G. Faust, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, newly elected Cambridge Mayor David P. Maher, and 300 others watching via telecast. “Children without those options are basically condemned to poverty...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Secretary of Education Calls For Reform | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Athens' oft-intemperate mayor, Nikitas Kaklamanis, who upped the ante by invoking the ghosts of Greece's war dead: "Ms Merkel, you owe us for Kalavryta, you owe us for Distomo, you owe us ?70 billion ($95 billion) for the ruins you left us," he said, referring to two World War II incidents in which hundreds of Greeks were massacred in reprisal attacks by German soldiers. See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece's Debt Crisis: Blaming Nazi Germany | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...fight crime in Medellín, President Álvaro Uribe made a controversial proposal last month to pay 1,000 students $50 per month to serve as informants by sharing intelligence with authorities. Medellín's mayor and others have criticized the strategy, fearing it will turn students into targets of the conflict. Eduardo says the criminal underworld will be forced to respond by hiring people to spy on the student informants. "We'll have to involve a new bunch of people in this war," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Medellín, a Disturbing Comeback of Crime | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...doesn't have that many clean, qualified and experienced bureaucrats, policemen, doctors and teachers. Besides, parachuting officials into former Taliban strongholds may be self-defeating; Pashtuns rarely trust anybody outside their own tribe and clan. It can hardly be reassuring to the residents of Marjah that their newly appointed mayor, Haji Zahir, has only recently returned from 15 years of living in Germany. (See the top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It to the Taliban | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

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