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...Needless to say, this has thrown the senior class into a bit of a frenzied tizzy. Throughout our four years here, Harvard has taught us that success is an infinite race for, simply, more—more activities, more straight As, more friends, more leadership titles. We students create much of this environment ourselves, which only perpetuates and exacerbates the problem. Thus, come time of graduation and of finding a job, our Harvard-bred mentality encourages us in a specific direction: to follow the money—and if you can’t secure that, than to at least...
...Needless to say, the prospect of being at ground zero of a new phase of the anti-terror war prompts dread on the part of Somalia's fledgling government. And European coalition partners such as Germany have also expressed reluctance to extend the military campaign beyond Afghanistan. But the challenge in Somalia and elsewhere right now may be quite different from Afghanistan - to prevent the emergence of a new hub of terrorist sanctuaries, rather than destroying an existing one. A mission, in other words, with heavy emphasis on intelligence and building the capacity and incentive for locals to stop...
...attack also set off a U.S.-led manhunt throughout the world in which dozens of members of Al Jihad were arrested and extradited to Egypt, further crippling the organization's infrastructure. The besieged group split into two factions. One side angrily denounced al-Zawahiri for dragging members into a needless battle with the U.S. The other loyally followed him into a deeper alliance with bin Laden...
...couple weeks. I couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t even eating. And nobody cared. My proctor who was supposed to know what was going on in my life didn’t even notice that he hadn’t seen me in ages. Needless to say, my professors and TFs didn’t notice either. So then I asked for help. I looked for help. Room 13 is a joke. Response is even worse. I will never forget sitting there with my roommate (who was also in tears) and wondering why the fuck...
...this point. and pissed. and empty. I decided to regress and convince myself that it was my fault. And it wasn’t that bad. And that if I took ownership of what happened, then I would have the power to make it better. Needless to say, this approach failed miserably...