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Though more tribal violence seems an odd solution for war-torn Iraq, the U.S. is hopeful that Iraqis will finally rise up against al-Qaeda outsiders. In Anbar province, a U.S.-backed council of Sunni sheiks has made it its mission to force al-Qaeda out of the area. On April 6, the council announced it had killed four al-Qaeda operatives. "Our work," read a statement from the sheik heading the council, "continues until we finish them...
...Mission Hill Program’s main costs are incurred in the transportation of members to the Roxbury, Mass. neighborhood where they act as counselors for children with limited educational opportunities. The problem was, again, the UC’s resistance towards funding transportation. The new guard of the Financial Committee was unwilling to make an exception for Mission Hill. And when forced, with the advent of lost funds, to leave their charity work behind and become hard-edged lobbyists in front of a financial committee, Mission Hill came to a certain crisis of identity. Could a charity organization possibly...
...jarring difference between the $2,500 that the group had requested and the big nothing that they were slated to receive was eventually mitigated. In a general vote, the Undergraduate Council overturned the Financial Committee’s original decision. In the end, the Mission Hill program received $2,000—an amount considerably less than what the group needed, but still better than nothing...
...part of the Phillip Brooks House Association, Mission Hill was able to mobilize a veritable army of supporters to attend the meeting that would decide its fate. “Because we got about 80 or 90 people out to the UC meeting, we weren’t in as bad of a boat as other groups,” Kumar says. Smaller organizations don’t have this luxury, and so they have no means of fighting back...
...Earlier in the meeting, professors voted overwhelmingly to reaffirm the College’s mission to offer a liberal arts education, redefining it as “an education conducted in a spirit of inquiry rewarding in its own sake...