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...should bolster its presence overseas to levels not seen since World War II to address emerging threats from terrorism and weapons proliferation. That would be quite a change. Germans, mindful of their own history, have only in recent years agreed to dispatch troops abroad, mainly for peacekeeping or humanitarian missions. Volker Perthes, director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, an independent think tank, says the photos - and the response to them - demonstrate how unprepared Germany has been to find itself in a far more violent and unpredictable conflict than the one it signed up for back...
...that the biggest picture has changed. It's still so easy to fall in love with the raison d'etre of one's own father or mother. Medicine is undeniably a mission, a calling. Yet young people must feel it - each somehow attracted to his or her specialty, one's own nook in the grand house of medicine. I still know...
...Yifei Chen ’09 says of the Mission Statement of Harvard College, “Nowhere in that statement is any mention of inculcating students with a culture of service to others. Instead, it reeks of unabashed individualism…” (“Volunteering? What’s That?” comment, Oct. 23). But the Mission Statement ends with this exhortation: “Harvard expects that the scholarship and collegiality it fosters in its students will lead them in their later lives to advance knowledge, to promote understanding, and to serve society...
...adapt commercial, professional practices, while understanding that non-profits are there for a different reason,” he says. “If you care about the arts, it’s a very rewarding job,” he adds. “Our company has a mission, to enhance the profile and place of culture in society, to integrate it into the community,” Resnicow says. IDEALISM IN THE REAL WORLD Ned Hinkle, the Creative Director for the Brattle Theater, says the Oct. 11 brainstorming session event was designed to help out the theatre...
...Panjwai district, said 60 people were killed, while other officials put the death toll as high as 85. NATO says it has confirmed 12 civilian casualties. Whatever the final number, the mounting bloodshed among old men, women and children in southern Afghanistan is whittling away support for the NATO mission...