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...ineffective and enormously costly. With a final price tag of more than $4 billion and $6.5 billion in estimated maintenance expenses over the next 20 years, the direct, measured costs alone are immense. However, to discuss the project’s environmental impact, one must recognize the systematic neglect of environmental laws that occurred during its construction...

Author: By A. patrick Behrer | Title: Reflecting on the Wall | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

Although Palin occasionally faltered and tied herself in verbal knots, the adoring listeners could not have cared less. They laughed at every joke, cheered in all the right places, hushed when Palin suggested a pro-abortion-rights mind-set could lead Democrats to neglect special-needs children or older people. She brought the audience members to their feet with a defiant charge: "Don't let anyone ever tell you to sit down and shut up." (See pictures: "Sarah Palin Hits the Campaign Trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rogue Returns: On the Road with Sarah Palin | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Maybe. On the other hand, Pakistan's civilian officials have hardly done much to improve lives when they have had the chance. It was governmental neglect that enabled militants to establish a foothold in the tribal areas in the first place. Unless the government can follow the army's offensive with development, infrastructure, jobs and justice, extremist groups will always thrive in the tribal areas. Taking the battle to the militants in South Waziristan, says Lieut. General Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, the former governor of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, "is a requirement, but not a solution - a first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Doubles Down Against the Taliban | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...ways the Child Advocacy Program attempts to expose students to opportunities to be agents of change in society is the Child Advocacy Clinic, which partners with dozens of community organizations in the fields of abuse and neglect, adoption, and foster care, providing direct service experiences for Law School students...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Child Advocacy at Law School | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...number of professors said that further budget cuts could permanently damage the libraries’ core mission, since the libraries were experiencing neglect well before the financial crisis...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Voices Library Unease | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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