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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...particularly desperate: it has a 66% unemployment rate, compared with 25% among Palestinians in general, and 81% of its residents live in poverty. Israel demolished thousands of homes near the border to prevent militants from digging tunnels beneath them that could be used to smuggle weapons into Gaza. The meager refugee-camp blocks facing the border are a bullet-pocked mess of twisted rebar and shattered concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza's New Strongmen | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

With over 1,000 students at the College and 150 students at the Extension School enrolled in Justice, it’s clear which course is ascendant above the rest. As the top Moral Reasoning Core among a meager field, and the potential to be the top Harvard College course among a field of giants, Sandel has a duty to open Justice to all comers, regardless of the cost...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Justice for All | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

...Green forced tons of Colgate mistakes and overcame a meager offensive performance to pull off a 26-21 upset. Welcome to your rude awakening, Dartmouth...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE: League Contests Loom | 9/23/2005 | See Source »

With Harvard hitting at a meager .024 clip, Northeastern jumped out to an early 7-1 lead and kept pounding kill after kill, eventually coasting...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Falters Across River Versus Huskies | 9/22/2005 | See Source »

Though only a meager few introductory courses (including History 10a: Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures from Antiquity to 1650) admit it outright in their course titles, nearly all intro courses at Harvard focus on the West. Social Studies 10, Historical Studies A-12, English 10a (and 10b), Ec 10, and Justice, to name a few, stick only to the intellectual, political, historical, and economic achievements of Eurasia and North America (plus the Near East and North Africa during ancient times...

Author: By Alex Slack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why the West? | 9/21/2005 | See Source »

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